TY  - CHAP
A1  - Joya, Preciosa de
T1  - The Punakawans make an untimely appearance : in praise of caves, shadows, and fire or A response to Plato's doctrine of truth
T2  - Errans : going astray, being adrift, coming to nothing / ed. by Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer ; Cultural Inquiry ; 24
N2  - This paper begins with a Bakhtinian reflection on Javanese shadow puppet theatre (wayang kulit), and explores errancy through carnival laughter embodied and performed by the wise, grotesque figures of clown-servants (punakawan). I argue, however, that here the real subversive power lies not in a combative position that erupts in a social revolution but in offering an alternative way of thinking and being, a deviation from the philosophical (Platonic) obsession for truth and heroic/historic gestures that claim to overcome ignorance and hegemonic/normative structures. Responding to the critique of so-called feudal elements in 'Javanism', I explore how the Javanese mantra, 'manunggaling kawula gusti' (the union of servant and lord), incessantly rehearsed in the stories and life of the people, reveals neither blindness nor self-dissimulation.
KW  - Wayang kulit
KW  - Humour
KW  - Grotesque
KW  - Theatre-Philosophy
KW  - Punakawan
KW  - Kejawen
KW  - Humor
KW  - Das Groteske
KW  - Java
KW  - Wert
KW  - Philosophie
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70473
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-704738
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-24/joya_the-punakawans-make-an-untimely-appearance.pdf
UR  - 2627-731X
SN  - 978-3-96558-037-4
SN  - 978-3-96558-038-1
SP  - 20
EP  - 47
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -