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Author Saraswati, L. Ayu, author

Title Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia / L. Ayu Saraswati
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013
Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]

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Description xi, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Series Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory
Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Contents Introduction: seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia -- Rasa, race, and Ramayana: sensing and censoring the history of color in precolonial Java -- Rooting and routing whiteness in colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese whiteness -- Indonesian white beauty: spatializing race and racializing spatial tropes -- Cosmopolitan whiteness: the effects and affects of skin-whitening advertisements in a transnational women's magazine -- Malu: coloring shame and shaming the color of beauty -- Conclusion: shades of emotions in a transnational context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Indonesia.
Human skin color -- Indonesia -- Psychological aspects.
Race awareness -- Indonesia.
LC no. 2012042310
ISBN 0824836642 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
0824837363 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780824836641 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780824837365 (paperback) (alkaline paper)