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Footsteps (Buru Quartet)
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Translator: Max Lane
Introduction: Max Lane
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-05-01
ISBN: 0140256342
Number of pages: 474
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Book Review: Development of a Nationalist Critic
Summary: 4 Stars

As we follow the developing story of Minke, we watch his footsteps leave the place of the former story and begin to explore the outside world through the study of medicine. It is clear that this study will yield for him government employment and the opportunity to help his fellow people. At the same time this is happening, he is constantly aware and being made more aware by those around him of his own people and how little he knows about them since his preference for Dutch language and education i.e. the filter of colonialism prioritizes everything and weights it in a certain manner. Influences from a developing China, the Philippines and a budding new anticolonial spirit begin to flourish in the greater environment and bring freshness, humility and depth to concepts previously understood only in a colonial fashion. In Footsteps we watch Minke grow in consciousness, develop leadership skills and independence and begin to listen to a different drummer both in terms of who his people are, and what he might best do, for them and with them. His path is changed and word by word, experience by experience, we are present at the birth of an organizer, a political journalist and a nationalist critic.

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