New terrains in Southeast Asian history / edited by Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abu Talib Ahmad.

Tan, Liok Ee.

Series:

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 107.

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southeast Asia--History.

Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xxv, 393 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Center for International Studies, Ohio University Press : Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a watershed moment in the scholarly approach to the history of this important region, New Terrains in Southeast Asian History captures the richness and diversity of historical discourse among Southeast Asian scholars. Through the perspectives of scholars who live and work within the region, the book offers readers a rare opportunity to enter into the world of Southeast Asian historiography. Individual chapters subject the dominance of national narratives to critical reflection and deconstruction, while others highlight the need to go beyond essentially political narratives to seek out deeper cultural, economic, and social structures by utilizing new sources, methodologies, and concepts. Taken as a whole, the book contends that new terrains in Southeast Asian history may be found "at the interstices and on the margins" where nations, societies, or cultures engage the unending processes of historical change. The contributors are Abdul Rahman Haji Ismail, Abu Talib Ahmad, Andrew Hardy, Badriyah Haji Salleh, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, C. J. W.-L. Wee, Ni Ni Myint, Dhiravat na Pombejra, Hong Lysa, Huang Jianli, Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, M. R. Fernando, P. Lim Pui Huen, Paul H. Kratoska, Tan Liok Ee, Thongchai Winichakul, and Yong Mun Cheong.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Introduction

Part One SEEKING NEW PERSPECTIVES AND STRATEGIES

Chapter 1 WRITING AT THE INTERSTICES

Chapter 2 CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF SPACE IN HISTORY WRITING

Chapter 3 QUANTIFYING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

Chapter 4 SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY, LITERARY THEORY, AND CHAOS

Chapter 5 COUNTRY HISTORIES AND THE WRITING OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY

Part Two CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING THE NATIONAL PAST

Chapter 6 MYANMAR HISTORIOGRAPHY SINCE 1945

Chapter 7 OUR ISLAND STORY

Chapter 8 HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF THE MALAYS

Chapter 9 DIALOGUE OF TWO PASTS

Chapter 10 THE SCRIPTING OF SINGAPORE'S NATIONAL HEROES

Chapter 11 WRITING MALAYSIA'S SOCIAL HISTORY FROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS

Chapter 12 TOWARD AN AUTONOMOUS HISTORY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PHUKET

Chapter 13 CONTINUITY AND CONNECTEDNESS

Chapter 14 MIGRANTS IN CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE HISTORY

Chapter 15 LOCATING CHINESE WOMEN IN MALAYSIAN HISTORY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-89680-426-7

OCLC:

133167898