Indonesian postcolonial theatre
Subtitle: spectral genealogies and absent faces
By: Evan Darwin Winet.
Series: Studies in international performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230546882
Subjects: Theater and society -- Indonesia; Theater -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Drawing examples from as early as a 1619 production of Hamlet and as recent as 2007 performances by Indonesia's most famous presidential impersonator, this book considers how theatre functions as a uniquely effective medium for representing the contradictions of Indonesian identity in the urban colonial/postcolonial metropole"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: colonial foundations and precessions of postcoloniality spectral genealogies; title: Unimaginable communities: theatres of Eurasian and Chinese Batavia neighborhoods and buildings; title: Sites of disappearance: expatriate ghosts on ephemeral stages Jakarta after 1949; title: Despite their failings: spectres of foreign professionalism the last two luminaries; title: Hamlet and Caligula: echoes of a voice, unclear in origin the wandering woman; title: Umat as Rakyat: performing Islam through veils of nationalism devotions of the revolutionary youth; title: Teater Reformasi: the lingering smile of the absent father performing the face of Suharto; title: Conclusion: forgetting the monotonous nation.