Writing a Feminine Subject: The Auto/Biographical Narratives of Indonesian Female Celebrities

Aquarini Priyatna

SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, 21582440211032660

Abstract: Situated in popular culture, celebrity auto/biography becomes both space and instrument for self-representation that illuminates the issues of public/private, global/local, normative/disruptive, and fact/fiction dichotomies. This article works on five auto/biographies of Indonesian female celebrities published in the 2000s, namely, Lenny Marlina, Krisdayanti, Tiara Lestari, Yuni Shara, and Dorce Gamalama. By conducting a close reading of the texts and how the celebrities present their lives, the article seeks to argue that the auto/biographies represent the complexity of Indonesian celebrity femininities that are culturally intertwined. The article also shows that the auto/biographies contribute to establishing their celebrity status and how they present their lives as exemplary. Finally, this study aims at contributing to the understanding of how celebrity auto/biographies complicate the notion of the feminine within Indonesian celebrity culture.

Keywords: celebrity; auto/biography; performativity; femininity; bildungsroman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/21582440211032660

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