Memoirs of an Indo woman
Subtitle: twentieth century life in the East Indies and abroad
By: by Marguérite Schenkhuizen ; edited and translated by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy.
Contributors: Van Balgooy, Lizelot Stout.
Series: Monographs in international studies.; no. 92
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Schenkhuizen, Marguérite, 1907-; Eurasians -- Indonesia.; Eurasians -- Indonesia -- Biography.
Description: The memoirs of Marguerite Schenkhuizen provide an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who lived in the former Dutch East Indies. The memoirs provide vignettes of Indonesian life, both rural and urban, as seen through the eyes of the author first as a girl, then as a wife separated from her husband during the Japanese occupation, finally as an immigrant to the United States after World War II.

This self-portrait gives glimpses of the life of Indos from inside their society, glimpses that are valuable for their descendants as well as for outsiders. Written with humor and a positive tone, Schenkhuizen's story sets aside the myth that Indos were denied access to the upper layers of Dutch colonial society or were otherwise disadvantaged. Instead, her life story provides an authentic view of a vital Indo culture and experience that has been unavailable to the general reader of English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation from the Dutch.