One: Pre-War Litrature.- 1. Socio-political Background.- 2. The History of the Malay Language.- 3. Indonesian Nationalism and Bahasa Indonesia.- 4. The Beginnings of Poetry: Muhammad Yamin.- 5. Early Political Novels.- 6. Poetry up to 1928; Rustam Effendi.- 7. 1928, the Proclamation of Bahasa Indonesia.- 8. Sanusi Pan?s Madah Kelana.- 9. Historical Dramas.- 10. Pudjangga Baru and Bahasa Indonesia.- 11. Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana on Bahasa Indonesia.- 12. The Poetry of Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana.- 13. The Polemics on Culture.- 14. The Artist as a Teacher: Lajar Terkembang.- 15. Pudjangga Baru and the Tachtigers; J. E. Tatengkeng.- 16. Pudjangga Baru in Retrospect.- 17. Other Poetry of the Period.- 18. Traditional Poetry: the Sjairs.- 19. Traditional Prose Writing; Historical Novels.- 20. Early Balai Pustaka Novels.- 21. Minangkabau Society and the Indonesian Novel.- 22. Marah Rushs Sitti Nurbaja.- 23. Nur St. Iskandar and his Early Novels.- 24. Other Novels in Minangkabau Setting.- 25. Development of the Novel; Abdul Muis Salah Asuhan and other Highlights.- 26. Various Novels by Takdir and Nur St. Iskandar.- 27. Novels in Various Sumatran Settings.- 28. Hamka as a Novelist.- 29. Story Tellers and Roman Pitjisan.- 30. Various non-Sumatran Novels.- 31. Pre-war and Post-war Literature; Armijn Pan? as a link?.- 32. Armijn Pan?s Belenggu.- 33. Amir Hamzah, Seal of Malay and Herald of Indonesian Poetry.- Two: Post-War Literature.- 1. 1942, the Year of the Break.- 2. Novel and Stoiry-Writing under the Japanese Occupation.- 3. Play-Writing under the Japanese Occupation.- 4. The Angkatan 45. Documentation.- 5. The Angkatan 45. Meetings, Congresses, Symposia.- 6. H. B. Jassin, Custodian of Modern Indonesian Literature.- 7. The Angkatan 45. Chairil Anwar and Vitalism.- 8. Surat Kepertjajaan Gelanggang; the Ideal of Universal Humanism.- 9. Asrul Sani, Sitor Situmorang and the Ideals of the Angkatan 45.- 10. The Marxists and the Angkatan 45.- 11. Discussion on the Crisis in Literl³T