Komedie Stamboel : Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903, Paperbac...

by Cohen, Matthew Issac

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Komedie Stamboel : Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1, Paperback by Cohen, Matthew Issac, ISBN 9067182672, ISBN-13 9789067182676, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Matthew Isaac Cohen's evocative social history situates the Komedie Stamboel in the culture of empire and translocal flows of itinerant entertainment. He shows how the theater was used as a symbol of cross-ethnic integration in postcolonial Indonesia and as an emblem of Eurasian cultural accomplishment by Indische Nederlanders. A pioneering study of nineteenth-century Southeast Asian popular culture, The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1 gives a new picture of the region's arts and entertainment through an exploration of the interplay of global culture, theatrical innovation, and the movement of people and ideas in colonial Southeast Asia.

• Year: 1891
• ISBN: 9789067182676
• Condition: Fine

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