Authors

Kathy Foley

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Description

Southeast Asian wayang/nang talung puppetry presents the local hero as refined. Three types of “others” repeat: 1) comic foreigners, 2) Raja Sabrangan (“Overseas King”) and followers, and 3) physically deformed clown servants. The last two groups are important and may relate to Austronesian concepts of spirit siblings accompanying each person through life.

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

University Of Connecticut

City

Storrs

Keywords

puppet, representation, race and ethnicity, wayang, clown

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Indigenous Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Theatre and Performance Studies

The Other in Southeast Asian Puppetry

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