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:
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.
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?
sharon bakar, may i interview you and write your history?
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??
cannibal cannibal cannibal
i will not spell it wrong again
i don't understand why women wants to have THEIR version of everything...women this women that..as a man i resent that...
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
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
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