Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952 (Studies in International Performance) - Hardcover

Cohen, M.

 
9780230224629: Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952 (Studies in International Performance)
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ISBN 10: 0230224628 ISBN 13: 9780230224629
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

A far-reaching examination of exoticism, cultural internationalism and modernism's encounters with Indonesian tradition, Performing Otherness examines how Indonesia entered world stages through imperialism as an antimodern phantasm and through nationalism became a means of intercultural communication and cultural diplomacy.

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About the Author

MATTHEW ISAAC COHEN lectures in theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University and performs as a wayang kulit puppeteer. His 2006 book, The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903, won the Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0230224628
ISBN 13 
9780230224629
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
297

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