Indonesian postcolonial theatre : spectral genealogies and absent faces / Evan Darwin Winet
- 作者： Winet, Evan Darwin 1971-
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- 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2010
- 叢書名： Studies in international performance
- 主題： Theater and society--Indonesia , Theater--Indonesia--History--20th century , Theater , Drama , Indonesische Sprachen , Indonesien
- ISBN： 9780230246676 、 0230246672
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- 書目註：Contemporary Indonesia is haunted by two millenia of migrations and inspirations from throughout Eurasia. However, the colonial administration in Batavia ultimately condensed the archipelago's heterogeneity into a distinction between Natives and the West, a distinction that has informed the national discourse ever since. Indonesia's modern theatre paradoxically uses its reliance on Western dramaturgies and theatrical traditions to transcend the parochialism of local ethnic performance traditions. However, it's authenticity as an indigenous tradition is consequently always in doubt. In the postcolonial metropole, theatre artists represent Indonesia vis? Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005171541 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism.
內容註
-- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: colonial foundations and precessions of postcoloniality -- Unimaginable Communities: theatres of Eurasian and Chinese Batavia -- Sites of Disappearance: expatriate ghosts on ephemeral stages -- DespiteTheir Failings: spectres of foreign professionalism -- Hamlet and Caligula: echoes of a voice, unclear in origin-- Umat as Rakyat: performing Islam through veils of nationalism -- Teater Reformasi: the lingeringsmile of the absent father -- Conclusion: forgetting the monotonous nation -- Appendix. a timeline of'Indonesian' and 'Batavian' histories -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index --