Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre: Spectral Genealogies and Absent Faces (Studies in International Performance)

by EvanDarwinWinet (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $115.54

  Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism.