Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia / / L. Ayu Saraswati; ed. by David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp.
In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thou...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
- CHAPTER 1. Rasa, Race, and Ramayana: Sensing and Censoring the History of Color in Precolonial Java
- CHAPTER 2. Rooting and Routing Whiteness in Colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese Whiteness
- CHAPTER 3. Indonesian White Beauty: Spatializing Race and Racializing Spatial Tropes
- CHAPTER 4. Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin- Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine
- CHAPTER 5. Malu: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty
- Conclusion. Shades of Emotions in a Transnational Context
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
- Other Volumes in the Series