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Indonesian postcolonial theatre : spectral genealogies and absent faces /

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 nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winet, Evan Darwin, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Colección:Studies in international performance.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Despite Their 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 lingering smile of the absent father
  • Conclusion: forgetting the monotonous nation
  • Appendix. a timeline of 'Indonesian' and 'Batavian' histories
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.