Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s
By: edited by Susie Protschky and Tom van den Berge
Contributors: Barnard, Timothy P., 1963-
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 310; Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- 310.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789004372610; 9789004372702
Subjects: History; Civilization
Description: This book reveals how everyday experiences of being `modern' (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s / Susie Protschky; title: Modern living in third-world suburbia : Quezon City, 1939- 1976 / Michael D. Pante; title: Mediated publicness and Islamic modernity in Indonesia / Julian Millie; title: New spiritual movements, scholars, and "Greater India" in Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen; title: Picasso in the tropics : European modern painting in Indonesia, 1920-1957 / Tom van den Berge; title: Women, film, and modern Malay identities / Timothy P. Barnard; title: Talking sex, making love : P. Moe Nin and intimate modernity in colonial Burma / Chie Ikeya; title: Contested modernities and spectres of progress in twentieth- century Siam/Thailand / Janit Feangfu and Rachael V. Harrison; title: Modernity and the body : Franco-Vietnamese children in the colonial era and beyond / Christina Firpo.