Essays on Multatuli

“Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonized people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonized population, the colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule (Jurgen 16).” Apart from the economic and political incentives, race too played an important role in the colonization process. It was the feeling of superiority and the need to enforce it ...

Throughout the novel, Max Havelaar, there are different narratives, each describing or talking about the world that they inhabit. The narratives offer a view of what the characters think of each other and the system that they live under. The novel is full of interwoven storylines. Together with the narrative of the Multatuli, Droogstoppel and Stern are the native stories. The narratives and the stories in the novel lead to the conclusion that there are different stories told from the perspective of the actors. James Scott in his work, “Behind the Official Story” describes the presence of the public, ...

Mukhsin was one of Ahmad’s most popular films in Malaysia; this is because of a tale of the innocence of first love and its sentimental description of youth. This film explores the delicate, indeterminate love story between two children in Malaysia. Orked (Sharifah Aryana) an independent 10 year girl living with her musician father and British-educated mother. In summer vacation, she befriends a newcomer Mukhsin (Mohd Syafie Naswip), a 12-year boy from a troubled home who has come to stay with her aunt. The tomboyish Orked is uneasy among girls of her age and prefers to play with boys. When Mukhsin arrived ...