Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16815-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Social Sciences in Asia

Overcoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and institutions of power fail or refuse to recognise and act in accordance with the knowledge that race exists only insofar as its existence is sustained by the believer's belief in it. The contributors draw from a burgeoning but under-examined 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lim, David C L

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Overcoming Passions for Race and Community - David C.L. Lim

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. Lim

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. Lim

A Passion for Other Lovers: Rewriting the "Other" in Ooi Yang-May's Fictionalisation of Multiethnic Malaysia - Tamara S. Wagner

About the Editor and Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

David C.L. Lim obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University and is currently Senior Lecturer at Open University Malaysia. His publications include The Infinite Longing for Home: Desire and the Nation in Selected Works of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam (Rodopi, 2005).