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Reclaiming adat : contemporary Malaysian film and literature
- Title
- Reclaiming adat : contemporary Malaysian film and literature / Khoo Gaik Cheng.
- Author
- Khoo, Gaik Cheng, 1969-
- Publication
- Vancouver : UBC Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an emphasis on sexuality and a return to archaic forms such as magic and traditional healing. Using close textual readings of literature and film, Khoo Gaik Cheng reveals the tensions between gender, modernity, and nation."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246) and index.
- Includes filmographies: p. 209-217.
- Contents
- 1. Reclaiming adat -- 2. Malay myth and changing attitudes towards nationalism : the Hang Tuah/Hang Jebat debate -- 3. DissemiNatin of Malay/sia -- 4. Malay/sian films : cinema of denial -- 5. Representations of the modern Malay woman of the 1990s -- 6. What is it to be a man? : violence in the time of modernity -- App. A. Cultural representations of Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat.
- ISBN
- 0774811722
- LCCN
- 9780774811729
- OCLC
- OCM61526336
- SCSB-5224219
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries