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001 2009048533
003 DLC
005 20091201091953.0
008 091117s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009048533
020 $a9780230546882 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aa-io---
050 00 $aPN2904$b.W56 2010
082 00 $a306.4/84809598$222
100 1 $aWinet, Evan Darwin,$d1971-
245 10 $aIndonesian postcolonial theatre :$bspectral genealogies and absent faces /$cEvan Darwin Winet.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2010.
263 $a1006
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aStudies in international performance
520 $a"Drawing examples from as early as a 1619 production of Hamlet and as recent as 2007 performances by Indonesia's most famous presidential impersonator, this book considers how theatre functions as a uniquely effective medium for representing the contradictions of Indonesian identity in the urban colonial/postcolonial metropole"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: colonial foundations and precessions of postcoloniality spectral genealogies -- Unimaginable communities: theatres of Eurasian and Chinese Batavia neighborhoods and buildings -- Sites of disappearance: expatriate ghosts on ephemeral stages Jakarta after 1949 -- Despite their failings: spectres of foreign professionalism the last two luminaries -- Hamlet and Caligula: echoes of a voice, unclear in origin the wandering woman -- Umat as Rakyat: performing Islam through veils of nationalism devotions of the revolutionary youth -- Teater Reformasi: the lingering smile of the absent father performing the face of Suharto -- Conclusion: forgetting the monotonous nation.
650 0 $aTheater and society$zIndonesia.
650 0 $aTheater$zIndonesia$xHistory$y20th century.