Laurie J Sears

Shadows of Empire

Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales

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Produktbeschreibung

"A challenging book. Laurie Sears provides a wide range of provocative insights into Javanese and colonial culture and a radical rethinking about the "wayang" as a major area for the negotiation of power relationships between the Javanese and the Dutch."--Amin Sweeney, University of California, Berkeley

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780822316978
• ISBN-10: 0822316978
• Artikelnr.: 21275757

Autorenporträt

Laurie J. Sears is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. She is editor of Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Spelling and Translations vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Histories, Mythologies, and Javanese Tales 1
1. Hearing Islamic Voices in "Hindu-Javanese" Tales 34
2. Colonial Discourse and Javanese Shadow Theatre 75
3. Failed Narratives of the Nation or the New "Essence" of Java? 121
4. Javanese Storytellers, Colonial Categories, Mahabharata Tales 170
5. Revolutionary Rhetoric and Postcolonial Performance Domains 214
6. Fictions, images, and Allegories 266
Selected Glossary 303
Selected Bibliography 311
Index 335