Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
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dc.titleMelayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness
dc.contributor.authorSyed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
dc.contributor.authorMaznah Mohamad
dc.contributor.editorMaznah Mohamad
dc.contributor.editorSyed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-01T05:53:25Z
dc.date.available2019-02-01T05:53:25Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationSyed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, Maznah Mohamad (2012). Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness : 370. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
dc.identifier.isbn9789971695552
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/151319
dc.description.abstractPeople within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word 'Melayu', which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. 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, a political rather than a cultural community embracing all residents of the Malay states, including the immigrant Chinese and Indian population. In Melayu: The 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.
dc.description.urihttps://www-jstor-org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
dc.publisherNUS Press
dc.sourceNUS Press
dc.typeBook
dc.contributor.departmentMALAY STUDIES
dc.description.doi10.2307/j.ctv1qv383
dc.description.page370
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