This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of "museumising" heritage, the book then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment, and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers an intervention in received ways of talking about and "doing" heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in Malaysia to contest "Malaysian heritage" as a stable narrative, exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep engagement with a non-western society in the service of "provincialising" critical heritage studies, with the broader goal of contributing to Malaysian studies.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"An invaluable collection of scholarly inquiries into the discourses, politics, and tensions of heritage-making in contemporary Malaysia. . Authored by specialists in literary studies, cultural studies, and history, the eleven chapters in this collection not only 'provincialise' critical heritage studies by deploying case studies and perspectives from and of Malaysia, but also direct our attention to the constructed, and contested, nature of race, culture, nation - and heritage." (Loo Hong Chuang, SARE, Southeast Asian Review of English, Vol. 58 (1), 2021)
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
10
10 s/w Abbildungen
XXVI, 318 p. 10 illus.
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 24 mm
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ISBN-13
978-981-15-1493-7 (9789811514937)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-1494-4
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
