The Long Shadow of the 19th Century : Critical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia
Author: Farish A. Noor
ISBN: 9789672328612
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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 themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.
