British colonial education and the rise of nationalism in Malaya: tracing the route of the Merdeka generation in Adibah Amin's "This End Of The Rainbow"

• Main Author: Kavitha Ganesan
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw 2016
• Subjects: PN1-6790 Literature (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31654/1/British%20colonial%20education%20and%20the%20rise%20of%20nationalism%20in%20Malaya_%20tracing%20the%20route%20of%20the%20Merdeka%20generation_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31654/2/British%20colonial%20education%20and%20the%20rise%20of%20nationalism%20in%20Malaya%20tracing%20the%20route%20of%20the%20Merdeka%20generation%20in%20Adibah%20Amin%27s%20This%20End%20Of%20The%20Rainbow.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31654/; http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-11787c47-c872-4250-b13f-f90add9a4120/c/Anglica_25-1_KGanesan_233-253.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth (1961) asserted the importance of colonial education for the emergence of “native intellectuals” who will be able to represent the masses and participate in the national agenda against colonisation. Likewise Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983) dr...