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Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia /

In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. This book explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saraswati, L. Ayu (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Colección:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia
  • Rasa, race, and Ramayana : sensing and censoring the history of color in precolonial Java
  • Rooting and routing whiteness in colonial Indonesia : From Dutch to Japanese whiteness
  • Indonesian white beauty : spatializing race and racializing spatial tropes
  • Cosmopolitan whiteness : the effects and affects of skin-whitening advertisements in a transnational women's magazine
  • Malu : coloring shame and shaming the color of beauty
  • Conclusion : shades of emotions in a transnational context.