...Ronit Ricci This article considers the crossings, modes of mobility, and affiliations that have shaped forms and contexts of storytelling within a small yet culturally resilient diasporic community: the Sri Lankan Malays, whose forefathers were sent from across the Indonesian archipelago...

... performance of Shakespeare s The Winter s Tale, that introduces a comparative difference between Thainess and Malayness that, I will argue below, forestalls the formation of the dialectical image. By identifying the nature of comparison at work in Amir s films, I seek to elaborate the politics...

... population is comprised of immigrant and therefore deterritorialized Chinese and Indi- ans; and when there is a communist insurgency led mainly by Chinese in a Malay-dominated region? This was the position of postcolonial Singapore...

... majority, the island was Malay. Islam, especially Islam linked with Malayness, is the ground upon which Singapore builds its “first world.” The uncanny return of the original inhabitants of the land as outsiders should be familiar to many in settler contexts. In American horror films—especially...

...; previously he was professor of anthropology at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam from 2011 to 2020. His book publications include Borneo Studies in History, Society and Cul- ture (2017); Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia (2016); Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalising World (2012); and The Malay...

... forward again to examine how Amir Muhammad s Village People Radio Show (Apa khabar orang kampung) recov- ers radio s forgotten role in the Second Malayan Emergency, also known as the Communist Insurgency War (1967 89). The 2007 independent docu- mentary on the Malay- Muslim members of the Communist...

... power. As we saw in Hugh Clifford's Studies in Brown Humanity , brownness in Southeast Asia and Oceania has often taken the racial marker of Malay racial origin. In the Philippines, Spanish colonial scholarship “regarded in large measure the Filipinos as Malay,” so that Filipino Malayness widely...

...-controlled parliamen- tary opposition to the ruling coalition of parties called the Barisan National (National Front), which was dominated by the Malay-controlled party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO). Twenty-five years under...

... these multiple journeys: Malay exiles and soldiers reinvented themselves as they traversed the Indian Ocean to arrive in Ceylon, an unfamiliar land; they crossed from Dutch to British rule as imperial power structures shifted in the late eigh- teenth century; and they were Muslims in a predominantly Buddhist...

..., Part 3: The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice .” Storyteller (blog), March 27 . yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com/2007/03/making-of-mukhsin-part-3-flavour-of.html . Andaya Barbara Watson . 2011 . “ Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society...

... who maintain their ethnic identities; who speak Mandarin and other forms of Chinese, Malay, or Tamil; who are able to sustain the “Asian” multicul- tures of multiethnic Singapore; and who live in the older public housing estates — in contrast...

..., pressure exercised by European businessmen and Malay politicians who influenced the Governor General's decision to “identify an enemy and take action against it.” This was in spite of the fact that the British Labor government under Clement Attlee (as prime minister from 1945 to 1951) was not especially...

... through the hybridization of Chinese and Malay cultures in the centuries before British arrival.7 By tracing their lineage Goh ❘ Oriental Purity 1045 to the Peranakans, Song and Lim, both third-­generation...

.... The narration was conducted in Penan and was subsequently translated and transcribed into Malay by Ezra, with the final English version below being Ibrahim s own translation of the Malay text. Penghulu James was aware that Ezra was recording his story for the anthropologist s benefit. Penghulu James was likely...

... countries. 10 Animus toward migrants and their descendants is part and parcel of Malaysia's ongoing racialized nation-building struggles, by which colonial-era ideologies of Malay indigeneity have been entrenched in the present day via policies that have stratified the country's political, economic...

... groups: Mendaki (an acronym) for Malays, the Chi- nese Development Assistance Council, and the Singapore Indian Develop- ment Agency. Each is dedicated to improving the educational attainment of children from needy families...

..., but with a twist. Con- vinced of the genetic inferiority of his own Malay people vis-A-vis Malaysian Chinese (allegedly brought on by inbreeding among Malays), he has con- cluded that tight control is needed to avoid Chinese economic dominance...

... addicted to what, in an irony of imperialism, was called a Chinese drug, “grotesque things that lay in . . . fantastic pos- tures on the ragged mattresses” (224), are themselves “crouching Malays,” whose nationality, like the “odour...

... of imagining the urban by extending this dominant aesthetic to the level of the absurd. This article attempts to account for a moment in the history of Malay- alam cinema when an attempt to spatially imagine the city, through iterative...

...- tance of fixed cultural/racial categories, which reflect the highly racialized politics of both the colonial and postcolonial eras, was foreshadowed in his early political testament The Malay Dilemma. This book, which Mahathir authored...