Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s
Susie Protschky, Tom van den Berge · 2018
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This book reveals how everyday experiences of being `modern' (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and change in the transition from colonialism to independence and after in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recover modern times at the intersection of public and private domains, encompassing sex, religion, art, film, literature and urban space. The authors examine the conditions and representations of modernity, as shaped by elites and the governed, by actors, artists, novelists and non-fiction writers. Plural encounters in cities, through spiritual communities, art, high and popular culture saw Southeast Asians fashioning modern times in dialogue with global capitalism, consumer culture and second-wave feminism.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Series
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 310
- Publisher
- Brill
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 214
- ISBN
- 9789004372610
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