...Masturah Alatas © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Malaysian Mandela At secondary school in Singapore in the mid-1980s,­ we read Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country. One word I will always associate with that novel is shantytown. The teacher told the class that shantytowns...

.... The protagonists of the novel, Malik and his older brother Ahl, were not born in Somalia, have never visited the country, and neither had their father. Their mother is Malaysian. Their knowledge of the land does not come from any real, personal experience deriving from resi- dence in the country...

... and Taiwanese is more importantly reflective of the way politics is inextricably implicated in the definition of ethnic identity. For different reasons, the changing identification of Chinese in Southeast Asia from diaspora to Malaysian or Indonesian huaren should have reflected the more important...

... issued by the Malaysian government: “‘The manual dexterity of the oriental female is famous the world over. Her hands are small and she works fast with extreme care. Who, therefore, could be better qualified by nature and inheritance to contribute to the efficiency of a bench assembly...

...’’ Chinese/Malaysian cultures of and wills the ghosts of his immigrant Japa- Hawaiai, Singapore, and San Francisco: nese ancestors to talk story kahiko out an aesthetics of flux and risk. of my voice’’ [xi]) with this prodigal son be- 27. Albert Saijo, OUTSPEAKS: A RHAP- coming native insider, Hongo...

... transformation to the life and labor of peasants in Bengal and Bihar.12 For the 11. D. K. Bassett, ‘‘British Commercial and Strategic Interest in the Malay Peninsula dur- ing the 18th Century in Malaysian and Indonesian Studies, ed. J. Bastin and R. Roolvink (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964), 122–40...