Overcoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies / edited by David C.L. Lim.
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 in...
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| Superior document: | Social sciences in Asia, v. 19 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 19. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.