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Contemporary Indonesian theatre and Javanese tradition
A woman preparing dinner in a humble village home repeatedly tells her son to bathe before he eats, as he dawdles and talks back. Finally, the boy sets out for the river but reports that the stream has dried up, transformed into a battlefield, that of the great Bharatayudha war that concludes the Mahabharata epic. A four-armed goddess appears, holding a grenade, arrow, pistol, and sword, and urges her child to fight fiercely, without mercy. At another site, in a contemporary airport lounge, passengers carrying suitcases rush past women performing traditional Javanese dance movements; huge shadows of both are projected on a screen behind them, along with images of jet planes traversing the sky.
History
Publication title
Traditions Redirecting the Present: Shards of Memory and Instances of Globalization in Modern Indonesian Cultural Productions Since Independence ( 1945-2015)Editors
J van der Putten, M Arnez, EP Wieringa, and A GrafPagination
201-227ISBN
978-1-4438-8993-3Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Cambridge Scholars PublishingPlace of publication
New Castle, UKExtent
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Copyright 2017 Jan van der Putten, Monika Arnez, Edwin P. Wieringa, Arndt Graf and contributorsRepository Status
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