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The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

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Description for The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia Paperback. Series: Difference Incorporated. Num Pages: 216 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; ASDX; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.


Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared as Suharto established a virtual dictatorship that ruled for the next thirty years.


In The Dance That Makes You Vanish, an examination of the relationship between female dancers and the Indonesian state since 1965, Rachmi Diyah Larasati elucidates the Suharto regime’s dual-edged ... Read more


Reflecting on her own experiences as an Indonesian national troupe dancer from a family of persecuted female dancers and activists, Larasati brings to life a powerful, multifaceted investigation of the pervasive use of culture as a vehicle for state repression and the global mass-marketing of national identity.


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Difference Incorporated
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679942
SKU
V9780816679942
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Rachmi Diyah Larasati
Rachmi Diyah Larasati is assistant professor of cultural theory, critical studies, and dance history in the department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. She also holds an affiliate graduate faculty position there in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and is a former guest faculty at the Brown University Critical Global Humanities Research Institute. ... Read more

Reviews for The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
"Women’s bodies, dancing bodies: in this haunting book, they lead us to political terror and its erasure in safely contained cultural performance. The ghosts of dancers killed in state-sponsored anti-communist frenzy shimmer before us, their movements precisely replicated by their state-cleansed replacements. Memoir here winds in and out of cultural critique; we are led up to that vanishing point where ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia


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