Format:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780896804692
Series Statement:
Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series no. 123
Content:
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater practitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto. It examines the work of an array of theater groups and networks from Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta that pioneered new forms of theater-making and new themes that were often presented more directly and critically than previous groups had dared to do. Michael H. Bodden looks at a wide range of case studies to show how theater contributed to and helped build the opposition. He also looks at how specific combinations of social groups created tensions and gave modern theater a special role in bridging social gaps and creating social networks that expanded the reach of the prodemocracy movement. Theater workers constructed new social networks by involving peasants, Muslim youth, industrial workers, and lower-middle-class slum dwellers in theater productions about their own lives. Such networking and resistance established theater as one significant arena in which the groundwork for the ouster of Suharto in May 1998, and the succeeding Reform era, was laid. Resistance on the National Stage will have broad appeal, not only for scholars of contemporary Indonesian culture and theater, but also for those interested in Indonesian history and politics, as well as scholars of postcolonial theater and culture.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780896802759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780896802759
Language:
English
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