“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 nineteeth 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 demostrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy or 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”–Back cover.
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The Long Shadow of 19 century
UncategorizedFarish A. Noor ; with an afterword by Peter Carey
2021. Matahari Books, which is an imprint of Buku Fixi Sdn Bhd.
Softcover, 391 pages
ISBN 9789672328612
RM45.00
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