Overcoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David C.L. Lim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458924803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• ISBN: 1-283-06156-2; 9786613061560; 90-474-3370-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Collana: Social sciences in Asia, , 1567-2794 ; ; v. 19
• Altri autori (Persone): LimDavid C. L
• Disciplina: 305.8009595
• Soggetti: Race awareness - Malaysia; Electronic books.; Malaysia Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.