Resistance on the National Stage : Theater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia.
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- 9780896804692
- 306.4/84809598
- PN2904.B74 2010
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Modern National Theater and the Indonesian New Order State -- Two: Indonesian Grassroots Theater: Arena Teater, Rural Development, and the Travails of Creating a Media For the People -- Three: Asas Tunggal and Laughter in the Mosque: Indonesian Islamic Theater on the National Stage -- Four: Teater Sae, Teater Kubur, and Avant-Garde Performances of Urban Alienation -- Five: The Limits of Bahasa Indonesia and Teater Payung Hitam's "Theater of Pain": Crisis of Representation of the Nation and Political Allegory -- Six: Workers' Theater and Theater About Workers ins Indonesia -- Seven: Staged Openness: Theater and Censorship in Indonesia's s Era of Keterbukaan -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.
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