
Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies.
Title:
Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies.
Author:
Lim, David.
ISBN:
9789047433705
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (196 pages)
Series:
Social Sciences in Asia ; v.19
Social Sciences in Asia
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Introduction (David C.L) -- A Case of Mistaken Identities? Retelling Malaysia's National Story (Suvendrini K. Perera) -- The Rejected Imagination in the Poetry of Fang Ang, Fu Chengde and Chen Qianghua (Gabriel Wu) -- From Fragmented Identities to Post-Identity: Lin Xingqian's Poetics of Diaspora (Tee Kim Tong) -- "Why aren't you a Muslim"? Pride and Prejudice through Gunawan Mahmood's Teen Fiction (David C.L) -- Looking through the Corridor: Malaysia and the MSC (Susan Leong) -- The Ideological Fantasy of British Malaya: A Postcolonial Reading of Swettenham, Clifford and Burgess (Daniel P.S. Goh) -- Globalisation and Bangsa Malaysia Discourse in Racial Crisis (Mohan Ambikaipaker) -- "Your memories are our memories": Remembering Culture as Race in Malaysia and K.S. Maniam's Between Lives (David C.L) -- A Passion for Other Lovers: Rewriting the 'Other' in Ooi Yang-May's Fictionalisation of Multiethnic Malaysia (Tamara S. Wagner) -- Index.
Abstract:
This book examines the passion for race in Malaysia through a burgeoning archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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