The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse (Asian History)

The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hypernationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and he shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today Table Of Contents A Note On The Language, Spelling And Pagination Of Quotations 1.Introduction 2.Booking Southeast Asia: And So It Begins, With A Nightmare 3.The New Language-Game Of Modern Colonial Capitalism 4.Raffles’ Java As Museum 5.Dressing The Cannibal: John Anderson’S Sumatra As Market 6.Brooke, Keppel, Mundy And Marryat’S Borneo As ‘The Den Of Pirates’ 7.Crawfurd’S Burma As The Torpid ‘Land Of Tyranny' 8.Bricolage, Power And How A Region Was Discursively Constructed Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Bibliography Index Booking Southeast Asia : And So It Begins, With A Nightmare -- The New Language : Game Of Modern Colonial Capitalism -- Raffles' Java As Museum -- Dressing The Cannibal : John Anderson's Sumatra As Market -- Brooke, Keppel, Mundy And Marryat's Borneo As The Den Of Pirates -- Crawford's Burma As The Torpid Land Of Tyranny -- Bricolage, Power And How A Region Was Discursively Constructed. Farish A. Noor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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