Cultures at War : : The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia / / ed. by Tony Day, Maya H. T. Liem.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Benitez, Francisco,; Bo, Bo,; Cheng Khoo, Gaik,; Creak, Simon,; Day, Tony,; Hatley, Barbara,; Huynh-Beattie, Boitran,; Lindsay, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Day, Tony,; Liem, Maya H. T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

The Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by regional historical imperatives as much as by the contest between global superpowers. The essays in this book offer the most detailed and probing examination to date of the cultural dimension of the Cold War in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian culture from the late 1940s to the late 1970s was primarily shaped by a long-standing search for national identity and independence, which took place in the context of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, with the Peoples' Republic of China emerging in 1949 as another major international competitor for influence in Southeast Asia. Based on fieldwork in Burma, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, the essays in this collection analyze the ways in which art, literature, film, theater, spectacle, physical culture, and the popular press represented Southeast Asian responses to the Cold War and commemorated that era's violent conflicts long after tensions had subsided. Southeast Asian cultural reactions to the Cold War involved various solutions to the dilemmas of the newly independent nation-states of the region. What is common to all of the perspectives and works examined in this book is that they expressed social and aesthetic concerns that both antedated and outlasted the Cold War, ones that never became simply aligned with the ideologies of either bloc.Contributors:Francisco B. Benitez, University of Washington; Bo Bo, Burmese writer (SOAS, University of London); Michael Bodden, University of Victoria; Simon Creak, Australian National University; Gaik Cheng Khoo, Australian National University; Rachel Harrison, SOAS, University of London; Barbara Hatley, University of Tasmania; Boitran Huynh-Beattie, Asiarta Foundation; Jennifer Lindsay, Australian National University

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Cultures at War in Cold War Southeast Asia: An Introduction -- Filming Philippine Modernity during the Cold War: The Case of Lamberto Avellana -- Modern Drama, Politics, and the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Left-Nationalism in North Sumatra: The Forgotten Theater of Indonesia's Lekra, 1955-65 -- Saigonese Art during the War: Modernity versus Ideology -- Cold War Rhetoric and the Body: Physical Cultures in Early Socialist Laos -- Still Stuck in the Mud: Imagining World Literature during the Cold War in Indonesia and Vietnam -- Raising Xenophobic Socialism against a Communist Threat: Re-reading the Lines of an Army Propaganda Magazine in 1950s Burma -- The Man with the Golden Gauntlets: Mit Chaibancha's Insi thorng and the Hybridization of Red and Yellow Perils in Thai Cold War Action Cinema -- Festival Politics: Singapore's 1963 South-East Asia Cultural Festival -- Filling in the Gaps of History: Independent Documentaries Re-Present the Malayan Left -- Recalling and Representing Cold War Conflict and its Aftermath in Contemporary Indonesian Film and Theatre -- Contributors