Friday, February 02, 2007

A Women's History of Malaysia

Farish Noor is calling for papers and articles for a publication to be entitled A Women's History of Malaysia from the Post-Colonial Era to the Present which Farish will be editing with Rachel Leow. The reasoning behind the project?:
Malaysian history, like the official history of many postcolonial societies, is narrow in focus, overwhelmingly political, and dominated by the unstated assumptions of those who write that history. More often than not, these mainstream narratives have ignored large areas of the past that are either not perceived to contribute to national history or run counter to the cultural, linguistic, class and gender leanings of the historians themselves. Official Malaysian history is no exception. The history of women in Malaysia, in particular, has hitherto received desperately little attention by historians and contemporary scholars.
The book is slated for release by Silverfish, later in the year.

More information available on The Other Malaysia website.

8 comments:

Ruhayat X said...

Damnedest. For a moment there I thought I saw "Post-Cannibal Era" and was about to get all worked up with anticipation.

Why can't we have any post-cannibal era writing, anyway. Let's have one in the next issue of Elarti.

Yvonne Foong said...

someone write my history. hehe just kidding. i want to contribute but don't know who to write on or have any knowledge with people of the past. Times were a struggle in the generation before mine and not many people could afford to make some sort of history, i guess. oh i dunno... i hope you get what i mean. u have any idea?

Yvonne Foong said...

sharon bakar, may i interview you and write your history?

bibliobibuli said...

post-cannible writing - a much ignored branch of literary studies. we should ahve a conference too. and maybe have post-colonial academics for lunch. (delicious)

yvonne - how about writing about your family history - i'm sure there are lots of stories

you can interview me if you like but am i really all that interesting??

bibliobibuli said...

cannibal cannibal cannibal

i will not spell it wrong again

Greenbottle said...

i don't understand why women wants to have THEIR version of everything...women this women that..as a man i resent that...

bibliobibuli said...

i used to feel the same greenbottle

thing is i understand now just how much women's voices are silenced - and men have written much of the history of this country

Burhan said...

this might be late, but there's also a call for papers about Islam and 'feminism', to be published in a special issue of an international women's studies journal.

but the deadline's in a week.

http://www.engagingislam.umb.edu/papers/index.html