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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2013]
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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.