The Malay World in Colonial Fiction

• Main Authors: Kong, Lily, Savage, Victor R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1986
• Subjects: Asia; Mental images; Nineteenth century; Perception; Westerners; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1803; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9493.1986.tb00171.x
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Examines the mental images Westerners formed of their subjective perceptions of a unique section of the earth's surface - the Malay world - and in a particular time-frame - the high colonial period (circa 1870 to 1940). Illustrates how the perceptions give rise to a definition of the region as...