Overcoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lim, David C. L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 19.
Subjects:
Race awareness > Malaysia.
Conscience de race > Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race awareness
Race relations
Identität
Rasse > Motiv
Raspolitik > Malaysia.
Malaysia > raskonflikter.
Malaysia > Race relations.
Malaisie > Relations raciales.
Malaysia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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, Cliford and Burgess / Daniel P.S. Goh
  • Globalisation and Bangsa Malaysia discourse in racial crisis / Mohon 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.

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