The Long Shadow of the 19th Century: Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia

by Farish A. Noor

Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century - and then wrote about what they saw.

Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9672328613
• ISBN13: 9789672328612
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Buku Fixi
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"