Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts
View through CrossRef
“Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts” reviews the 2018 edition of the George Town Festival in Penang, Malaysia, probing the tension between the festival’s ideological role of promoting a governing vision of “one Malaysia” and the unruly and ungovernable nature of festivity.
Title: Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts
Description:
“Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts” reviews the 2018 edition of the George Town Festival in Penang, Malaysia, probing the tension between the festival’s ideological role of promoting a governing vision of “one Malaysia” and the unruly and ungovernable nature of festivity.
Related Results
“We are not changing it”: A Reassessment of the History of the Flag
“We are not changing it”: A Reassessment of the History of the Flag
According to conventional historical accounts, the New Zealand Ensign Act 1901 changed the national flag from the Union Jack to the current flag. This article shows that the 1901 A...
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North a...
Banner Headlines: The Maori Flag Debate in Comparative Perspective
Banner Headlines: The Maori Flag Debate in Comparative Perspective
Consider these statements. On the one hand: '[H]e did not agree with flying the tino rangatiratanga flag because it argued the case of Maori sovereignty, when the Treaty was all ab...
‘History As it Should Have Been’: Haunts of the Historical Sublime in John Corigliano's and William Hoffman'sThe Ghosts of Versailles
‘History As it Should Have Been’: Haunts of the Historical Sublime in John Corigliano's and William Hoffman'sThe Ghosts of Versailles
AbstractIn John Corigliano's and William Hoffman's operaThe Ghosts of Versailles(1991), generic, musical, and temporal boundaries are dissolved, and historical processes revealed, ...
An interim report on the dendrochronology of Flag Fen and Fengate
An interim report on the dendrochronology of Flag Fen and Fengate
The Flag Fen excavations of 1984 revealed a large number of oak timbers and it was immediately apparent that there was potential for dendrochronology. It was suggested that the wor...
Flag Fen: the vegetation environment
Flag Fen: the vegetation environment
The discovery of the timber platform in fen peat poses a number of questions relating to the local ecology and environment in which the structure was constructed and the character ...
“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”
“Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?”
Abstract
“Why must all girls want to be flag women?” laments one critic regarding what he sees as the infiltration of “Carnival” culture into the performative desire...
“Above and Below” and “Inside and Outside” in Chu Bamboo Texts: With Comments on the Classification of Spirits and Numen in Sacrificial Rites by Chu People
“Above and Below” and “Inside and Outside” in Chu Bamboo Texts: With Comments on the Classification of Spirits and Numen in Sacrificial Rites by Chu People
Abstract
The Chu ghosts and spirits are divided into those “above” and those “below.” “Above” and “below” cannot be understood only as referring to heavenly spirits and earthly dei...