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Author Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- author.

Title Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia / Jacqueline Knörr.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Integration and conflict studies ; volume 9
Integration and conflict studies ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Creole identity in postcolonial context -- Jakarta, Batavia, Betawi -- Orang Betawi versus Orang Jakarta -- Suku bangsa Betawi : integration and differentiation of ethnic identity -- Betawi versus Peranakan -- Orang Betawi versus Orang Indonesia : the connection between ethnic diversity and national unity -- Betawi politics of identity and difference -- Conclusion. Towards an open end.
Summary Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the.
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Subject Ethnicity -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Ethnicity.
Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Creoles -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Ethnic identity.
Creoles.
Creoles -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Postcolonialism -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Postcolonialism.
Ethnic conflict -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Ethnic conflict.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Social conditions.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia 9781782382683 (DLC) 2013023315 (OCoLC)852828169
ISBN 9781782382690 (electronic book)
1782382690 (electronic book)
9781782382683 (hardback)
1782382682 (hardback)