Dr. Tineke (C.M.S.) Hellwig,
Associate Professor

Research Interest

Indonesian and Malay literature, representations of women in island Southeast Asia, feminist literary criticism, postcolonial theory

Educational Background

PhD (1990) in modern Indonesian literature,
Leiden University, The Netherlands

MA (1982) in Indonesian and Malay language and literature,
Leiden University, The Netherlands

BA (1979) in Indonesian and Javanese language, literature and culture
Leiden University, The Netherlands

Courses Taught at UBC

Indonesian language, all levels (INDO 102, INDO 200, SEAL 440)
Southeast Asian literature in translation (ASIA 375, ASIA 349)
Gender in Southeast Asian literature (ASIA 359)
Introduction to Southeast Asia (ASIA 206)
Cultural Foundations of Southeast Asia (ASIA 209)
History of Indonesian civilization (ASIA 362)
Asian literature in translation: a comparative approach (ASIA 350)
Women in literature (WMST 224)
Approaches to Asian Literature (ASIA 570)
Directed Readings (ASIA 580)

Major Publications

Books:

1985 Nh. Dini, Djataju.Verhalen uit Indonesië. Vertaald en van een nawoord voorzien door Tineke Hellwig. Den Haag: Thomas & Eras. 104 pp.

1986 (ed) A Man ofIndonesian Letters. Essays in Honour of Prof. A. Teeuw. Co-edited with S.O. Robson. Dordrecht: Foris Publications. 349 pp.

1994 In the Shadow of Change. Images of Women in Indonesian Literature.
Centers for South and Southeast Asia Studies, International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Monograph no. 35. xiii +259 pp.

1994 Adjustment and Discontent. Representations of Women in the Dutch East Indies. Windsor: Netherlandic Press. 103 pp.

2003 In the Shadow of Change. (Dalam Bayang-bayang Perubahan) Citra Perempuan dalam Sastra Indonesia.Jakarta: Desantara. 283 pp. [Indonesian translation of In the Shadow of Change].

2006 (ed) Asian Women: Interconnections. Co-edited with Sunera Thobani. Toronto: Women’s Press.279 pp.

2007 (co-editor)  journal issue of RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs) 41.2. 204 pp. “Post-Soeharto Women’s Writing and Cultural Production.”

2009 (co-editor) The Indonesia Reader. History, Culture, Politics. Co-edited with Eric Tagliacozzo. Durham and London: Duke UP. 477 pp.

Refereed articles :

1985 (with Marijke Klokke) "Focalization and theme: the irinteraction in Orang-Orang Bloomington," in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 141.4, pp. 423-40.

1990 "Representations of Women in Three Modern IndonesianNovels" in B.C. Asian Review no.3/4, pp.311-22.

1992 "Nyai Dasima, a Fictional Woman" in Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs vol. 26 no. 1 (winter 1992) pp. 1-20.

1993a "The Asian and Eurasian Woman in the Dutch East Indiesin Dutch and Malay Literature" in Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies/ Revue canadienne d'études Néerlandaises,XIV, ii, pp. 20-26.

1993b "Leila S. Chudori and Women in Contemporary FictionWriting" in Tenggara Journal of Southeast Asian Literature 31pp. 72-87.

1996 "Gramser Brinkman, de moordenaar van Fientje de Feniks.Maleise literaire teksten" in Indische Letteren. XI.1 (March) pp.2-15.

1997a "Nog Meer Kleinkinderen van de Thee" in Indische Letteren. XII.1 (March)pp.26-33.

1997b "Nona Diana, Du Perron en een Ritmeester" in Indische Letteren. XII.2 (June) pp.50-67.

2001a "A Double Murder in Batavia: Representations of Genderand Race in the Indies", Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs Vol.35, nr.2 (Summer) pp.1-32.

2001b "Asian Women in the Lives of Dutch Tea Planters: TwoNarratives from West Java", in Indonesia and the Malay World Vol.29, nr.85 (November) pp.161-179.

2001c "Female Passion for the Wrong Man: InterracialRelationships in Dutch East Indies Literature" Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies/Revue canadienne d'étudesNéerlandaises XXII, ii (Fall/Automne) (Windsor University), pp. 1-10.

2002 "Scandals, Homicide in Batavia and Indo Identity: Literary Representations of Indies Society" Archipel Vol.63 (April) pp. 153-172.

2007 (with Michael Bodden) “Introduction. Post-Soeharto Women’s Writing and Cultural Production.” in RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs) 41.2, pp. 1-24.

2007 “A Dragon-shaped Hummingbird. Nukila Amal’s Writing from the Nation’s Margin” in RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs) 41.2, pp. 127-149.

Book chapters:

1984 "Zuidoost-Azië" in Ongehoorde Woorden. Vrouwenen Literatuur in Afrika, Azië en Latijns Amerika. Ed. Mineke Schipper.Weesp-Den-Haag: Het Wereldvenster-Novib, p. 152-70; translated in English(1985)

"Southeast Asia" in UnheardWords. Women and Literature in Africa, the Arab World, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Ed. Mineke Schipper. London-New York: Allison & Busby, pp. 141-59.

1986 "Njai Dasima, een vrouw uit de literatuur" in A Man of Indonesian Letters. Essays inHonour of Prof. A. Teeuw. Eds. C.M.S. Hellwig and S.O. Robson. Dordrecht:Foris Publications, pp. 48-66.

1987 "Rape in Two Indonesian Pop Novels; An Analysis of theFemale Image," in Indonesian Women in Focus, eds. Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Anke Niehof, Dordrecht: ForisPublications, pp. 240-54.

1988 "De Danseres van Dukuh Paruk: Uitverkoren en Uitgestoten" in Vrouwen in Taal en Literatuur, ed. Korrie Korevaart, Amersfoort/Leuven: Acco, pp. 97-109.

2006“Biola tak berdawai. Jogjakarta in beeld: film, fictie en vrouwen” in Willem van der Molen et.al. (eds), Milde Regen. Liber Amicorum voor Hans Teeuw. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers. pp.77-94.

Other articles:

1992 (with Luc Nagtegaal) "Eurasians: Europeans orAsians?" in The Quality of Life inSoutheast Asia. Transforming Social, Political and Natural Environments,ed. Bruce Matthews. Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies XX. Montréal:McGill University. pp. 231-240.

1998 "The Lives of Queeny Chang and Hermine Tan: PeranakanWomen in the Dutch East Indies" in Mandakranta Bose (ed.), The World My Mother Gave Me. Vancouver:Institute of Asian Research, pp. 45-64.

2003 "Menguasai Tubuh Perempuan: Hubungan Antar-ras dalam Sastra Melayu 1920-30an" in Basis 9-10 (September-October) (Yogyakarta) pp.54-61.

2007 “Nostalgia in Yogyakarta”: The Film Biola Tak Berdawai (Stringless Violin)” in Michael Leaf (ed), Arts, Popular Culture and Social Change in the New Indonesia. Vancouver: IAR, UBC and Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, pp.101-118.

Current Research

WOMEN AND MALAY LITERATURE: STUDIES IN GENDER, REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY
This is a study of how women have been represented in works of literature written in Malay in the period 1880-1920. It examines the discourses relating to gender and race that emerge from those literary texts and relates this to the cultural and social context within which they are produced and received. It presents critical feminist readings of texts in Chinese Malay and Betawi Malay to a and scrutinizes the literary and journalistic activities that developed as part of the radical changes which took place in the Dutch East Indies around 1900, in order to gain a better insight into social structures, and specifically the position of women.

Email: hellwig(at)mail.ubc.ca