A colonial by acquisition: ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith's<i>Land Below the Wind</i>

Hull, Simon Peter; Pakri, Mohamad Rashidi

doi:10.1080/13645145.2015.1103090

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“…In comparison to Peninsula Malaysia, where writers and critics have produced various fiction and/or commentaries on post-colonial literature the Malaysian Borneo narrative is missing. Several researchers have asserted that Sabah and Sarawak literature in English is rich and diverse due to the population of numerous ethnic groups (Toh, 2016;Yeoh, Arbaayah & Sivagurunathan, 2012). A pioneering researcher on Borneo literature in English, Patrick Yeoh (2016), stated while Sabah and Sarawak are usually referred to as East Malaysia, as if they are one entitywhich, to some extent, may be justifiable geographicallyfrom the literary perspective, we are talking of two quite different niche areas of study despite certain cultural similarities (Toh, Star Online, p. 3).…”

Section: The Missing Link: Postcolonial Studies In Sabah?mentioning

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Postcolonial Criticism in Sabah: A Review

DESIREE ROBERT

2021

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Sabah, formerly known as North Borneo during the period of British colonisation from 1888- 1963 produced many texts about the British presence and their activities on the island. This review highlights that the post-war studies especially Sabah’s colonial literature is the missing link to its alternative history. Colonial literature has left its legacy in the form of history, anthropology and art but also in the textual and literary representations of Sabah through a western lens. The critique of colonial fiction and non-fiction texts in former colonies in Malaya and Sarawak have paved the way for critical examination and commentary on the modes of representation of the indigenous and immigrants. This review discusses the highlights of postcolonial criticism in Malaysia. It briefly introduces some of the issues about postcolonial criticism in Sabah and its potential.

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Section: The Missing Link: Postcolonial Studies In Sabah?mentioning

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Postcolonial Criticism in Sabah: A Review

DESIREE ROBERT

2021

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“…With this contextualisation in mind, the seemingly scandalous imagination of Agnes is no longer scandalous. Although Hull and Pakri (2015a) identified this imagination of Keith with that of the lure of the tropics that the white men (p. 107), it appears to be of slightly different nature if it is considered in the context, as the imagination derived from Harry's negation of-so she thought-Agnes as his wife. The loneliness caused by the negation by her husband meant denial of her identity as the wife of colonial officer.…”

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Investigating The Nature Of Gaze In Agnes Keith’s Land Below The Wind

Nimura¹,

Pakri²

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Politicizing Power Between the Imperial Female and the Malay Other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Off

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The autobiographical writing by Emily Innes's The Chersonese with the Gliding offer corded experiences and turbulence underwent by a White officer's wife to Malaya with an underlying western perspectives and impression on the country during pre-Independence period and its people. By using narrative data, this article examines existing power relations, framed within interactions between the white lady (representing the Self) and her Malay male servants (as the Other). The use of Michel Foucault's Technology of Power enables an analysis of power strategies that represent both binary opposites in order to also trace the existence of gender power. More specifically, it allows a protoconceptualisation of types among Malay men that are identifiable during the pre-Independence period. Further understanding the Malay men, especially of their ego, is important in the growing interest over Postcolonial subject where it explores forms of resistance, portrayed by the Other in his daily power relation with the Self. Findings reveal that while power play exists within these interactions, it is a one-sided discourse which sanctions fair play as well as equality of power distribution.

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A colonial by acquisition: ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith'sLand Below the Wind

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Postcolonial Criticism in Sabah: A Review

Postcolonial Criticism in Sabah: A Review

Investigating The Nature Of Gaze In Agnes Keith’s Land Below The Wind

Politicizing Power Between the Imperial Female and the Malay Other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Off

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