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    Rumah Kaca

    Book / Novel

    Rumah Kaca

    by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

    Series Tetralogi Buru
    Format: Paperback, Indonesian
    646 page(s)
    ISBN/ISBN13: 9799731267/9789799731265
    Published Jan 01, 2009 by Lentera Dipantara

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    And the fourth novel, Rumah Kaca, reveals the colonial government’s efforts to strike at all activities of the nationalist movement through a meticulous operation of archiving. The archive becomes the radar of the Indies administration, placed everywhere to record anything carried out by movement activists. Pram cleverly refers to this archive politics as the process of pe-rumahkaca-an—to “glasshouse” someone under surveillance.


    Other/Related Editions


    House of Glass
    English / 1997


    In this Series — Tetralogi Buru


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    2000
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    2005
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