An edition of Indonesian postcolonial theatre
(2010)
Indonesian postcolonial theatre
spectral genealogies and absent faces
by Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton
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"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.
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Theater and society, Theater, History, Theater, indonesia, PostcolonialismShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Indonesian postcolonial theatre: spectral genealogies and absent faces
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230546889 9780230546882
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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