Javanese Shadow Plays Javanese Selves

Author : Ward Keeler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886724
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Javanese Shadow Plays, Javanese Selves written by Ward Keeler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with many performing arts in Asia, neither the highly stylized images of the Javanese shadow play nor its musical complexity detracts from its wide popularity. By a context-sensitive analysis of shadow-play performances, Ward Keeler shows that they fascinate so many people in Java because they dramatize consistent Javanese concerns about potency, status, and speech. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824814250
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Thrones of Gold written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Perhaps the best English-language puppetry book in years.¿ ¿Library Journal ¿Accessible and unexpectedly involving ... an essential book for anyone seriously interested in wayang.¿ ¿

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783722269
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Thrones of Gold written by James R. Brandon and published by . This book was released on with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Osnes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786457929
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia written by Beth Osnes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature within the context of Southeast Asian and Asian shadow puppet theatre traditions. Intended for a Western audience not familiar with Asian performance and practices, the text serves as a bridge to this highly imaginative form. An in-depth examination of the Malaysian puppet tradition is provided, as well as performance scripts, designs for puppet characters, instructions for creating a shadow screen, and easy directions for performance. Another section then considers the practical, pedagogical, and ethical issues that arise in the teaching of this art.

Author : Roger Long
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Javanese Shadow Theatre written by Roger Long and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurie Jo Sears
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316978
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of Empire written by Laurie Jo Sears and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia. Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re-envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought--and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture. Shadows of Empire will appeal not only to specialists in Javanese culture and historians of Indonesia, but also to a wide range of scholars in the areas of performance and literature, anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, and postcolonial studies.

Author : Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487525729
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Play written by Sheri Lynn Gibbings and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

Author : Fan Pen Li Chen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773575995
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Shadow Theatre written by Fan Pen Li Chen and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.

Author : Ward Keeler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Javanese Shadow Puppets written by Ward Keeler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandhu crowned king - Wayang in Javanese society - The repertoire of stories and the structure of the performance - What might Wayang mean? - An ancient art form in the modern world.

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119000
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.