LEADER 04366nam 22006734 450 001 996248350303316 005 20140902015302.0 010 $a1-322-14102-9 010 $a0-8223-9804-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398042 035 $a(CKB)3400000000085118 035 $a(EBL)3008073 035 $a(OCoLC)300565640 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000682033 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12347500 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000682033 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663468 035 $a(PQKB)10667265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008073 035 $a(OCoLC)1139357748 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79257 035 $a889585819 035 $a(DE-B1597)553380 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398042 035 $a(OCoLC)1125855044 035 $a(dli)HEB09226 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011500033 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000085118 100 $a20140829d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShadows of empire $ecolonial discourse and Javanese tales /$fLaurie J. Sears 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d1996. 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-1697-8 311 $a0-8223-1685-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [311]-334) and index. 327 $aContents ; Note on Spelling and Translations ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Histories, Mythologies, and Javanese Tales ; Chapter 1. Hearing Islamic Voices in ""Hindu-Javanese"" Tales ; Chapter 2. Colonial Discourse and Javanese Shadow Theatre ; Chapter 3. Failed Narratives of the Nation or the New ""Essence"" of Java? ; Chapter 4. Javanese Storytellers, Colonial Categories, Mahabharata Tales ; Chapter 5. Revolutionary Rhetoric and Postcolonial Performance Domains ; Chapter 6. Fictions, Images, and Allegories ; Selected Glossary ; Selected Bibliography ; Index 330 $aShadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia.Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds of years, our knowledge of its history, performance practice, and role in Javanese society only begins with Dutch documentation and interpretation in the nineteenth century. Analyzing the Mahabharata and Ramayana tales in relation to court poetry, Islamic faith, Dutch scholarship, and nationalist journals, Sears shows how the shadow theater as we know it today must be understood as a hybrid of Javanese and Dutch ideas and interests, inseparable from a particular colonial moment. In doing so, she contributes to a re?envisioning of European histories that acknowledges the influence of Asian, African, and New World cultures on European thought?and to a rewriting of colonial and postcolonial Javanese histories that questions the boundaries and content of history and story, myth and allegory, colonialism and culture.Shadows of Empire will appeal not only to specialists in Javanese culture and historians of Indonesia, but also to a wide range of scholars in the areas of performance and literature, anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, and postcolonial studies. 410 0$aACLS Fellows? publications. 606 $aWayang 606 $aWayang plays$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTales$zIndonesia$zJava$xHistory and criticism 607 $aJava (Indonesia)$xHistory 615 0$aWayang. 615 0$aWayang plays$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTales$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.5/3 700 $aSears$b Laurie J$g(Laurie Jo)$0652925 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248350303316 996 $aShadows of empire$92371952 997 $aUNISA