Drawing on the arguments that hebel is the thesis of Ecclesiastes as well as Qoheleth’s rhetorical tool, this essay examines hebel’s connection with Qoheleth’s ambiguities and contradictions. Understanding hebel in terms of its basic meaning, that...
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Drawing on the arguments that hebel is the thesis of Ecclesiastes as well as Qoheleth’s rhetorical tool, this essay examines hebel’s connection with Qoheleth’s ambiguities and contradictions. Understanding hebel in terms of its basic meaning, that is, vapour, we argue that Qoheleth employs the image as his rhetorical strategy because of its opaque and fluctuating character. Being opaque, hebel is an ideal symbol for delineating phenomena which are ambiguous and hard to define. Coupled with its capacity for infinite change, the opacity allows hebel semantic inexhaustibility, making it a versatile device for describing the fluctuating nature of reality. As everything is opaque and in constant change, Qoheleth cannot offer advice in absolute terms and often ends up making contradictory statements.
Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Fetish of Appearance -- Chapter One: The I of a Lingua Franca -- Melayu as a Lingua Franca -- If I Were a...
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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Fetish of Appearance -- Chapter One: The I of a Lingua Franca -- Melayu as a Lingua Franca -- If I Were a Dutchman -- Chapter Two: What Did Not Happen to Indonesians -- The Lingua Franca Seen through Dutch -- A Society of Appearances -- Chapter Three: Fetishizing Appearance, or Is ""I"" a Criminal? -- The Njai and the White Father Seen by an Indo: G. Francis -- Evading Fiction -- The Ghost of the Lingua Franca -- Appearances Again The Camera and the Law -- Part II: Recognition -- Chapter Four: Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom -- Chapter Five: Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism -- Chapter Six: Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation -- Recognition -- Photographs -- Chapter Seven: The Wish for Hierarchy -- Suspected -- Vengeance -- The Impulse toward Hierarchy -- Hierarchy, Vengeance, and Literature: The Crowd -- Part III: Revolution -- Chapter Eight: Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion -- Collaboration -- Suspicion Again -- Red Money, Cautious Rebellion Chapter Nine: Revolution -- Without the Fetish of Modernity: ""Freedom or Death -- No Entry -- Epilogue: Pramoedya Ananta Toer's ""Flunky + Maid,""or Conservative Indonesian, Revolutionary Indonesian, and the Lack of Indonesian Literature -- Notes
