Michael Bodden: 3 books

This anthology of literary and dramatic works introduces writers from across Asia and the Asian diaspora. The landscapes and time periods it describes are rich and varied: a fishing village on the Padma River in Bangladesh in the early twentieth century, the slums of prewar Tokyo, Indonesia during...

Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches human rights issues from the perspective of writers, artists, filmmakers, and dramatists throughout global Asia. By shifting the discussion of human rights away from the binaries of cultural relativism and political sovereignty, this...

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater prac­titioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto. It examines the work of an array of theater groups and...