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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
Recommended Citation
Foley, Kathy, "The Other in Southeast Asian Puppetry" (2023). Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects. Edited by John Bell, Matthew Isaac Cohen, and Jungmin Song.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/ballinst_alterity/9
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