Performing Otherness: Java and Bali on International Stages, 1905-1952

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.

Author: M. Cohen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/07/2010
Pages: 285
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230224629

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.