It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Shadows of Empire by Laurie Jo Sears
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Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and...
Shadows of Empire by Laurie Jo Sears is 382 pages long, and a total of 96,264 words.
This makes it 129% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 46 minutes to read Shadows of Empire aloud.
Shadows of Empire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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