Historical imagination and cultural responses to colonialism and nationalism a critical Malay(sian) perspective
History conditions the way that society discusses its problems. Treating history as a form of 'imagination', Azhar Ibrahim invites readers to probe the colonialist and nationalist tampering, suppression, and distortion of narratives on the Malays. In this thought-provoking book, the author...
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Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Critical historical imagination: sense and responsibility
- The indigenous perspective on colonial capitalism: insights from the Malay naratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Orientalism and Malay studies
- Orientalism, ethno-religious exclusivism and academicism in Malay studies: challenges in the emergence of an autonomous sociological discourse
- Psychological feudalism and obstacles to development
- Competing visions of the 'Melayu Baru' in contemporary Malay thought
- Cultural development and the role of the cultural intelligentsia in social transformation
- Autobiographies of dissent: some insights into the experiences of marginalised individuals in Malay society
- On guard agaist the nativism and divisiveness of nationalism (and all other debilitating 'isms')