The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations--reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature--have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Presenting dialogues between prominent scholars of and from Indonesia and Indonesian women working in professional, activist, religious, and literary domains, the book dissolves essentialist notions of "women" and "Indonesia" that have arisen out of the tensions of empire. The contributors examine...
The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations--reproduced...
"Shadows of Empire" explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production...
"Shadows of Empire" explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the...
The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations--reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature--have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Presenting dialogues between prominent scholars of and from Indonesia and Indonesian women working in professional, activist, religious, and literary domains, the book dissolves essentialist notions of "women" and "Indonesia" that have arisen out of the tensions of empire. The contributors examine...
The stories of Indonesian women have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations--reproduced...
"Shadows of Empire" explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production...
"Shadows of Empire" explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the...
