The long shadow of the 19th century
Subtitle: critical essays on colonial orientalism in Southeast Asia
By: Farish A. Noor ; with an afterword by Peter Carey
Contributors: Carey, P. B. R., writer of afterword
Publisher: Matahari Books, which is an imprint of Buku Fixi Sdn Bhd; Buku Fixi
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Petaling Jaya
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789672328612
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: History; Orientalism; Colonies; Histoire; Orientalisme
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-378).

In English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the long shadow of the 19th century: empire 2.0 today; title: Innocents abroad? The erasure of the question of race and power in contemporary 'feminist' and 'nostalgic' travelogues; title: 'Pirate' is what I'm not: the trope of the 'Southeast Asia pirate' in the discourse of legitimation for European colonial adventurism; title: Nothing left to know: Stamford Raffles' map of Java and the epistemology of empire; title: Anti-imperialism in the 19th century: a contemporary critique of the British invasion of Java in 1811; title: You are under arrest: epistemic arrest and the endless reproduction of the image of the colonised native; title: The woman with the bayonet: America's 1832 attack on Kuala Batu and the debate over the Sumatran woman as victim-combatant; title: Don't mention the corpses: the erasure of violence in colonial writings on Southeast Asia; title: Mea culpa: re-reading 19th century colonial-era works on Southeast Asia as confessional texts.