Modern Times in Southeast Asia, c. 1920s–1970s

Susie Protschky, Tom van den Berge

Research output: Book / ReportBook (Editorship) Academic

Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Volume310
ISBN (Print)978-90-04-37270-2
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Publication series

NameVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
PublisherBrill
Volume310

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