Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 310
• Author: Susie Protschky; Tom van den Berge (Volume Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Protschky, Susie,; Berge, Tom van den, 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 310.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Modern Times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s / Susie Protschky -- Modern Living in Third-World Suburbia / Michael D. Pante -- Mediated Publicness and Islamic Modernity in Indonesia / Julian Millie -- New Spiritual Movements, Scholars, and “Greater India” in Indonesia / Marieke Bloembergen -- Picasso in the Tropics / Tom van den Berge -- Women, Film, and Modern Malay Identities / Timothy P. Barnard -- Talking Sex, Making Love / Chie Ikeya -- Contested Modernities and Spectres of Progress in Twentieth-Century Siam/Thailand / Janit Feangfu and Rachel V. Harrison -- Modernity and the Body / Christina Firpo.