Contesting Malayness
Subtitle: Malay identity across boundaries
By: edited by Timothy P. Barnard.
Contributors: Barnard, Timothy P., 1963-
Publisher: Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Malays (Asian people); Malaysia -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Malay identity across boundaries
Description: "This book assembles research on the theme of how Malays have identified themselves in time and place, developed by a wide range of scholars. The authors include Malaysian anthropologist Shamsul A.B., Indonesian poet Tenas Effendy, and linguists and historians based in Australia, the Netherlands, Singapore and the U.S.A. While the authors describe some of the historical and cultural patterns that make up the Malay world, taken as a whole their work demonstrates the impossibility of offering a definition or even a description of 'Melayu' that is not rife with omissions and contradictions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melayu, Malay, Maleis / Timothy P. Barnard and Hendrik M.J. Maier; title: Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a source of diverse modern identities / Anthony Reid; title: Malay identity / Adrian Vickers; title: The search for the 'origins' of Melayu / Leonard Y. Andaya; title: The Makassar Malays / Heather Sutherland; title: Texts, Raja Ismail, and violence / Timothy P. Barnard; title: A Malay of Bugis ancestry / Jan van der Putten; title: A history of an identity, an identity of a history / Shamsul A.B.; title: Reconfiguring Malay and Islam in contemporary Malaysia / Virginia Matheson Hooker; title: Contesting straits-Malayness / James T. Collins; title: A literary mycelium, some prolegomena for a project on Indonesian literatures in Malay / Will Derks; title: An epic poem of the Malay's fate / Tenas Effendy ; translated by Timothy P. Barnard and Rohayati Paseng Barnard; title: A history of Malay ethnicity / Anthony Milner.