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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia (Hardcover)
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Traditional Indonesia (Hardcover)
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In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout
recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's
changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences:
first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving
Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the
impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan;
and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of
American culture. The book shows how the transnational circulation
of people, images, and ideas have shaped and shifted discourses and
hierarchies of race, gender, skin colour, and beauty in Indonesia.
The author employs "affect" theories and feminist cultural studies
as a lens through which to analyse a vast range of materials,
including the Old Javanese epic poem Ramayana, archival materials,
magazine advertisements, commercial products, and numerous
interviews with Indonesian women. The book offers a rich repertoire
of analytical and theoretical tools that allow readers to rethink
issues of race and gender in a global context and understand how
feelings and emotions--Western constructs as well as Indian,
Javanese, and Indonesian notions such as rasa and malu-contribute
to and are constitutive of transnational and gendered processes of
racialisation. Saraswati argues that it is how emotions come to be
attached to certain objects and how they circulate that shape the
"emotionscape" of white beauty in Indonesia. Her ground-breaking
work is a nuanced theoretical exploration of the ways in which
representations of beauty and the emotions they embody travel
geographically and help shape attitudes and beliefs toward race and
gender in a transnational world.
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