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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.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xxii
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  1. MALAYSIA: Contending Imaginations of Malayness
  1. Chapter 1 Boundaries of Malayness: “We Have Made Malaysia: Now It is Time to (Re)Make the Malays but Who Interprets the History?”
  2. pp. 3-33
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  1. Chapter 2 Like a Shady Tree Swept by the Windstorm: Malays in Dissent
  2. pp. 34-67
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  1. Chapter 3 Malay Racialism and the Sufi Alternative
  2. pp. 68-100
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  1. Chapter 4 Malays and Orang Asli: Contesting Indigeneity
  2. pp. 101-123
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  1. Chapter 5 Gender, Islam and the “Malay Nation” in Fatimah Busu’s Salam Maria
  2. pp. 124-142
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  1. SINGAPORE: Malays as Minorities and the Politics of Identities
  1. Chapter 6 Malay Identity in Postcolonial Singapore
  2. pp. 145-167
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  1. Chapter 7 Tudung Girls: Unveiling Muslim Women’s Identity in Singapore
  2. pp. 168-194
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  1. Chapter 8 Malayness as Mindset: When Television Producers Imagine Audiences as Malay
  2. pp. 195-216
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  1. INDONESIA and the PHILIPPINES: Borderland and Forgotten Malays
  1. Chapter 9 Riau: A Malay Heartland at the Borders
  2. pp. 219-240
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  1. Chapter 10 Filipinos as Malay: Historicizing an Identity
  2. pp. 241-274
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  1. ACROSS NATIONS: Representing/Rejecting Malayness
  1. Chapter 11 Absent Presence: The Malay in Straits Chinese Literature
  2. pp. 277-299
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  1. Chapter 12 Melayu and Malay — A Story of Appropriate Behavior
  2. pp. 300-329
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 330-360
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 361-364
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 365-370
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