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Among the cruel ironies that have haunted the career of Indonesia's most acclaimed and influential writer, one stands out as especially grotesque. Pramoedya Ananta Toer's masterwork, four related novels known as the Buru Quartet, deals with the brutally oppressive Dutch rule of his country at the turn of the century; but the regime that burned his manuscripts and library, beat him so that he remains half deaf, jailed him for 14 years without charges or trial and still bans his books and restricts his travel is not Dutch but Indonesian...
...entire work of nearly 1,600 pages is what is called a bildungsroman, a novel of education, beginning in the late 1800s. Its main character is a brilliant young Javanese named Minke, the son of a minor native aristocrat, who excels as a token native student at an elite Dutch-language high school. But his true education, and that of a Western reader innocent of Indonesian history, is in the realities of racial and economic oppression...
...been called Dickensian, largely on the basis of the first one, which is jammed with plot and characters and ends with the cliff-hanger of Annelies' legal kidnapping. But as the series continues, Minke's adventures--he becomes a journalist and publishes a successful newspaper in opposition to the Dutch rule--serve almost entirely as the framework for an endless series of questing dialogues. Sourly or hopefully, with colleagues or adversaries, Minke explores the nature of colonialism and capitalism, the psychology of police power, the role of women, the techniques of political organization, the efficacy of boycotts and much else...
Meanwhile, says Nicholas Gutierrez, a Miami lawyer, Cuban Americans are expected to sue ED & F Man, a British sugar-trading company; ING, a huge Dutch bank; and other members of a consortium that lent some $300 million to the Castro government in 1995. The loan collateral: sugar grown or milled on properties that allegedly belonged to Cubans who are now American citizens. A similar target: BAT, the giant British tobacco firm...
...which I always believe students do not get riled up enough about, and thus they resurface. While the acquisition of a frozen yogurt machine is always something students can get together on and sign petitions about (don't get me wrong, I love a little French vanilla and Dutch chocolate after every meal myself), I don't see this kind of excitement and dedication for more important issues such as the reconstruction of the advising system at this school...