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- Melayu
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
summary
People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions over whether Filipinos or Mon-Khmer speaking orang asli in Malaysia are to be properly called "Malay" can generate controversy and heated debate. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as the basis of membership within an aspiring postcolonial nation-state -- as a political rather than a cultural community embracing all residents of the Malay states, including the immigrant Chinese and Indian population. In Melayu: Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness, the contributors examine the checkered, wavering and changeable understanding of the word Melayu by considering hitherto unexplored case studies dealing with use of the term in connection with origins, nations, minority-majority politics, Filipino Malays, Riau Malays, orang asli, Straits Chinese literature, women's veiling, vernacular television, social dissent, literary women, and modern Sufism. Taken as a whole, this volume offers a creative approach to the study of Malayness while providing new perspectives to the studies of identity formation and politics of ethnicity that have wider implications beyond the Southeast Asian region.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxii
- MALAYSIA: Contending Imaginations of Malayness
- SINGAPORE: Malays as Minorities and the Politics of Identities
- INDONESIA and the PHILIPPINES: Borderland and Forgotten Malays
- ACROSS NATIONS: Representing/Rejecting Malayness
- Bibliography
- pp. 330-360
- Contributors
- pp. 361-364
Additional Information
ISBN
9789971696085
Related ISBN(s)
9789971695552
MARC Record
OCLC
794698889
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No