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Revisiting Malaya uncovering historical and political thoughts in Nusantara

"The contents of this volume go a long way to furthering our understanding of many dimensions of the difficult issues involved, including the national question." Jomo Kwame Sundaram. The concept of 'Malaya' continues to exert a powerful draw on our imagination, steeped in exot...

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Other Authors: Su, Yingxin (Editor), Wei, Yueping (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Petaling Jaya, Selangor Strategic Information and Research Development Centre 2021
Series:Malaysian studies series
Subjects:
Malaya > History
Malaya > Politics and government
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Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting Malaya: envisioning the nation, the history of idea and the ideas of history
  • Revisiting Malaya: Malayan dream or Singaporean nightmare?
  • The Malayan vision of Lim Chin Siong: unity, non-violence and popular sovereignty
  • Malaya's constitution-making process and ethnic entanglement
  • Malaya in art and architecture
  • Imagining Malaya, practising multiculturalism: the Malayan consciousness of Singaporean Chinese intellectuals in the 1950s
  • The making of Malaya: on the Malaya Film Unit's Cold War moving images
  • Usman Awang: justice, literature and society
  • Cultural and political relations between Malay(sian) writers and their Indonesian counterparts, 1950-1965
  • A history of the Tenth Regiment's struggles
  • The historical discourse on the Malay communists and its limitation
  • Returning to Malaya: the strategy and significance of the Communist Party of Malaya's southward advance
  • Ethnicity and nationalism: ideological struggles in Sarawak after the Second World War
  • The Malay question in Indonesia
  • Wartime imaginings of archipelagic community: Fajar Asia and the quest for peninsula Malayan and Indonesia unity
  • Rizal and the rethinking of analytics of Malayness
  • Andres Bonifacio: proletarian hero of Phillipines and Indonesia
  • How do Indonesians remember Konfrontasi? Indonesia-Malaysia relations and the popular memory of 'Confrontation' after the fall of Suharto
  • Malaysia as an 'Other' in Indonesian popular discourse
  • Religion and politics in Malaysian nation-building: a 'double-movement' of hegemonic and plural Islam
  • Ethnic diversity and the nation state in Southeast Asia: from centralisation in the age of nationlism to decentralisation amidst globalisation

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