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H-ASIA August 23, 1995 Query on material culture/travelogues, Indonsia, 1939-40, resources *************************************************************************** From: V.Herman@unsw.edu.AU (Vivian Herman) Dear H-Asia subscribers, As I finish up revisions on a book manuscript on Japanese popular images and travel writings on the Dutch East Indies and Malaya between 1930 and 1945, I am considering taking up Mary Louise Pratt's (_Imperial Eyes_) notion of the contact zone and incorporating some examples of how Malayans and Indonesians returned the Japanese look on them and appropriated Japan and things Japanese for their own purposes. I am interested in books/articles in the travelogue genre written by Indonesians and/or Malays about Japan, and I am also interested in getting accesss to some of the artifacts of the material culture of the period. For example, while in Japan earlier this year I saw a piece on NHK about a Japanese woman, married to an Indonesian living in Indonesia, who has a collection of batik. As I recall. she showed some batik which represented the Greater East Asia C0-Prosperity Sphere. I cannot recall her name or location, but would appreciate any pointers to her, and to any other collections of memorabilia (including posters, etc) in any part of the world serviced by an airline. Hope you can help me. Thanks. Dr. Vivian Herman Lecturer in History School of History The University of New South Wales AUSTRALIA 2052 PH: 61-2-385-2342 Fax: 61-2-313-7525 ---- Ed. note: The Pratt title noted above is: Pratt, Mary Louise, _Imperial eyes_ (London ; New York: Routledge, 1992) ISBN: 041502675X. 0415060958. F.F.C. ================================================================= To post to H-ASIA send your message to H-ASIA@msu.edu To temporarily interrupt your H-ASIA service for holidays send a posting to <listserv@msu.edu> with the message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL When you return and wish to resume H-ASIA service send a similar posting with message: SET H-ASIA MAIL Private questions should go to: conlon@u.washington.edu or leibos@sage.edu
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