Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World

by Joel S. Kahn

This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity, and nationalism in multiethnic Southeast Asia.

The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationalists, writers, and filmmakers in the late colonial period associated Malayness with the village (kampung), envisaged as static, ethnically homogenous, classless,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824831071
• ISBN13: 9780824831073
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"