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The Long Shadow of the 19th Century: Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia

The Long Shadow of the 19th Century: Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Farish A. NoorPublish date:2021-09-15Pages:394
Language:EnglishPublisher:Buku FixiISBN-13:9789672328612ISBN-10:9672328613UPC:9789672328612Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJ4H98HJS

Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century - and then wrote about what they saw.

Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.

Many of the tropes used by these colonial-era scholars and travellers, such as the indolence or savagery of the native population, are still very much in use today - which means we still live in the long shadow of the 19th century.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Buku FixiISBN-13:9789672328612ISBN-10:9672328613UPC:9789672328612Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:Southeast AsiaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCJ4H98HJS
Publisher: Buku Fixi

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Farish A. Noor

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