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Through an ethnographic and cultural analysis, it traces how public discourses, media representations, and everyday practices shape subjectivities across changing postcolonial institutions. The book organizes inquiry from early “Indonesian subject” framing to global-local cultural intersections, ending with how the postcolonial state and the archipelago nation structure belonging, faith, and selfhood.","Tom Boellstorff  \nThe Gay Archipelago  \nThe Gay Archipelago  \n# BLANK PAGE\n\nThe Gay Archipelago  \nSEXUALITY AND NATIONIN INDONESIA  \nCopyright C2005 by Princeton University PressPublished by Princeton University Press,41 William Street,Princeton,New Jersey 08540In the United Kingdom:Princeton University Press,  \n3 Market Place,Woodstock,Oxfordshire OX201SY  \nAll Rights Reserved.  \n# LIBRARY OF CoNGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA\n\nBoellstorff,Tom,1969-  \nThe gay archipelago:sexuality and nation in Indonesia/Tom Boellstorff.p.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-691-12333-0(hardcover:alk.paper)—ISBN0-691-12334-9(pbk.:alk.paper)  \n1.Gay men—Indonesia—Identity.2.Lesbians—Indonesia—Identity.  \n3.Gay men—Indonesia—Social conditions.4.Lesbians—Indonesia—Social conditions.5.Gender identity—Indonesia.6.Homosexuality一Political aspects-Indonesia.I.Title.  \nHQ76.3.I5B642005306.76'6'09598—dc22200500187  \nBritish Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.  \nThis book has been composed in Sabon  \nPrinted on acid-free paper.∞  \npup.princeton.edu  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \n1098765432  \nISBN-13:978-0-691-12333-2 (cloth)  \nISBN-10:0-691-12333-0(cloth)  \nISBN-13:978-0-691-12334-9(pbk.)  \nISBN-10:0-691-12334-9(pbk.)  \n# FOR BILL AND DÉDÉ\n\n# BLANK PAGE\n\nList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments  \n1X.X1  \nNote on Indonesian Terms and ItalicizationXV  \nPART ONE The Indonesian Subject  \n工  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nIntroduction  \n3  \nCHAPTER TwoHistorical Temptations35  \nCHAPTER THREEDubbing Culture58  \nPART Two Opening to Gay and Lesbi Worlds89  \nCHAPTER FoUR  \nIslands of Desire  \n91  \nCHAPTER FIVE  \nGeographies of Belonging126  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nPractices of Self,Tests of Faith157  \nPART THREE Sexuality and Nation185  \nCHAPTER SEVEN  \nThe Postcolonial State and Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities187  \nCHAPTER EIGHTThe Gay Archipelago216  \n233  \nNotes  \nWorks Cited  \n243  \nIndex  \n267  \nBLANK PAGE  \nFIGURES  \nFIGURE 1-1.An Independence Day performance.FIGURE 1-2.Map of Indonesia(before East Timor'sindependence).  \n15  \n16  \nFIGURE 3-1.“First in Indonesia:Lesbian Wedding,Attendedby 120 Guests.”  \n63  \nFiGURE 3-2.Ways in which one sample of 35 gay Indonesiansfirst learned of the term.69FIGURE 3-3.Gay men portrayed as possessed by animal lust.73FIGURE 4-1.The fatherly modern male.96FIGURE 4-2.Image accompanying article on \"Lesbians andLifestyle.”98FIGURE 4-3.Love should make gay and lesbi Indonesiansequal to normal ones.106FIGURE 4-4.“A poor hetero family that does not followFamily Planning.\"120FIGURE 4-5.“A lesbi couple who are professionals.”121FIGURE 4-6.“A young gay couple who,besides being happy,also can enjoy life optimally.”122FIGURE 5-1.Sexuality and nation intersecting.142FIGURE 5-2.\"Kalifornia,\"a bridge in downtown Surabaya.154FIGURE 5-3.Intersecting global,national,and local discourses.155FIGURE 7-1.Indonesia's borders before the invention of thearchipelago concept,as inherited from a 1939 colonial law.192FIGURE 7-2.Indonesia's borders after the invention of thearchipelago concept in December 1957.192FIGURE 7-3.The nation subsumes the ethnolocal.194FIGURE 7-4.The“traditional”family.199FIGURE 7-5.The“modern”family.199FIGURE 7-6.Heterosexual and ethnolocalized couplesconstituting the nation.200FIGURE 7-7.Confessional self,archipelagic self.206FIGURE 8-1.Outside Ngurah Rai airport,Bali.229","cbCaikcl8vSBXM4p","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikcl8vSBXM4p","pdf",41032079,3,1,300,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Historical Temptations\n## Dubbing Culture\n# Opening to Gay and Lesbi Worlds\n## Islands of Desire\n## Geographies of Belonging\n## Practices of Self, Tests of Faith\n# Sexuality and Nation\n## The 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