Mohamad Rashidi Pakri
Biographic Data
| ID | 9475225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamad Rashidi Pakri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamad Rashidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Pakri |
| SIGNATURE | PAKRI M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconfiguring Development in the Postcolonial Female Bildungsroman: Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and the Limits of Teleology
This study re-examines the concept of development through the lens of the classical genre of bildungsroman, while interrogating its teleology, coherence, and integration, which have historically been rooted in European modernity and colonial epistemology. While postcolonial and feminist studies have highlighted the exclusions inherent in this genre, there is a dearth of conceptual terms to think through alternative forms of development. In this c…
Identifying and quantifying literary intimacy with ChatGPT: A computational reading of Great Expectations
As intimacy has garnered increasing attention in sociology and psychology, its systematic study in literary scholarship remains predominantly rooted in qualitative close reading and interpretive analysis. To address this gap, this study introduces a novel computational framework for identifying and quantifying intimacy dynamics in literary texts. Leveraging GPT-4, we construct the first multi-layered intimacy corpus comprising over 12,000 verbal …
Dualistic Wilderness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
Set in Nagasaki, struck by atomic bombing during the Second World War, Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills (1982/1990) has been explored through the lens of ecocriticism only by a few critics, and investigations into the wilderness have been underexplored. Overlooking the wilderness in this fiction may lead to a neglect of nature’s therapeutic influence on the characters. The primary aim of the present study is to examine the dua listic qualiti…
Reimagining Chinese American Identity: Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Negotiation and Transformation in Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
The Chinese immigrant and Chinese American communities have faced a long history of stigmatisation and misrepresentation due to racial bias and discrimination. This article explores the transformative growth narrative of the child protagonist in Laurence Yep’s novel Dragonwings, set against the backdrop of historical anti-Asian sentiment in the early 1900s. By adopting Said’s “imaginative geography” and Bhabha’s “third space” as analytical perspe…
Tracing Issues of the Deferred/Differed Contemporary Australian Jewish Identity: Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm under the Deconstructive Lens
This study attempts to deconstruct Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark (2010) and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm (2011) to discuss the contemporary social-psychological identity features portrayed within the overall ethno-religious Australian Jewish identity perspective in these texts. Highlighting the bidirectional relationship between the social-psychological identity perspective (Breakwell, 1986), at the narrower level, and the overall ethno-religious Australi…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Pre-9/11 Politics of Islamophobia and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995)
The rising tide of Islamophobia and the consequent acts of violence pertaining to it over the past couple of years, is inflicting misery on Muslims living across the globe. This situation calls for a clear understanding of the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Using the New Historicist approach, this paper embarks on reading Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995) in the backdrop of the politics of Islamophobia in the pre-9/11 context. It thus attempts…
A colonial by acquisition: Ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith's Land Below the Wind
This article analyses the representation of the colonial British in Land Below the Wind (1939), an autobiographical travelogue by Agnes Newton Keith, the American wife of a British colonial officer in North Borneo. Whilst acknowledging the book's expressions of affection and qualified support for the British and their empire, the focus of our reading will be on several dramatic moments of imaginative and empathetic transgression from the more det…
An Imperial or a Personal Legacy: The Rivalry of W. E. Maxwell and F. A. Swettenham in British Malaya
This paper draws together and evaluates a number of historical events that took place during the early period of British rule in Malaya, especially those involving the official duties and the personal lives of the two colonial officers under study, Frank Athelstane Swettenham and William Edward Maxwell. Information from H. S. Barlow’s book entitled Swettenham for Frank Swettenham and my own interviews and research on Maxwell’s background contribu…
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An Imperial or a Personal Legacy: The Rivalry of W. E. Maxwell and F. A. Swettenham in British Malaya
This paper draws together and evaluates a number of historical events that took place during the early period of British rule in Malaya, especially those involving the official duties and the personal lives of the two colonial officers under study, Frank Athelstane Swettenham and William Edward Maxwell. Information from H. S. Barlow’s book entitled Swettenham for Frank Swettenham and my own interviews and research on Maxwell’s background contribu…
A colonial by acquisition: Ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith's Land Below the Wind
This article analyses the representation of the colonial British in Land Below the Wind (1939), an autobiographical travelogue by Agnes Newton Keith, the American wife of a British colonial officer in North Borneo. Whilst acknowledging the book's expressions of affection and qualified support for the British and their empire, the focus of our reading will be on several dramatic moments of imaginative and empathetic transgression from the more det…
Pre-9/11 Politics of Islamophobia and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995)
The rising tide of Islamophobia and the consequent acts of violence pertaining to it over the past couple of years, is inflicting misery on Muslims living across the globe. This situation calls for a clear understanding of the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Using the New Historicist approach, this paper embarks on reading Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995) in the backdrop of the politics of Islamophobia in the pre-9/11 context. It thus attempts…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Reimagining Chinese American Identity: Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Negotiation and Transformation in Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
The Chinese immigrant and Chinese American communities have faced a long history of stigmatisation and misrepresentation due to racial bias and discrimination. This article explores the transformative growth narrative of the child protagonist in Laurence Yep’s novel Dragonwings, set against the backdrop of historical anti-Asian sentiment in the early 1900s. By adopting Said’s “imaginative geography” and Bhabha’s “third space” as analytical perspe…
Tracing Issues of the Deferred/Differed Contemporary Australian Jewish Identity: Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm under the Deconstructive Lens
This study attempts to deconstruct Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark (2010) and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm (2011) to discuss the contemporary social-psychological identity features portrayed within the overall ethno-religious Australian Jewish identity perspective in these texts. Highlighting the bidirectional relationship between the social-psychological identity perspective (Breakwell, 1986), at the narrower level, and the overall ethno-religious Australi…
Dualistic Wilderness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills
Set in Nagasaki, struck by atomic bombing during the Second World War, Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills (1982/1990) has been explored through the lens of ecocriticism only by a few critics, and investigations into the wilderness have been underexplored. Overlooking the wilderness in this fiction may lead to a neglect of nature’s therapeutic influence on the characters. The primary aim of the present study is to examine the dua listic qualiti…
Identifying and quantifying literary intimacy with ChatGPT: A computational reading of Great Expectations
As intimacy has garnered increasing attention in sociology and psychology, its systematic study in literary scholarship remains predominantly rooted in qualitative close reading and interpretive analysis. To address this gap, this study introduces a novel computational framework for identifying and quantifying intimacy dynamics in literary texts. Leveraging GPT-4, we construct the first multi-layered intimacy corpus comprising over 12,000 verbal …
Reconfiguring Development in the Postcolonial Female Bildungsroman: Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and the Limits of Teleology
This study re-examines the concept of development through the lens of the classical genre of bildungsroman, while interrogating its teleology, coherence, and integration, which have historically been rooted in European modernity and colonial epistemology. While postcolonial and feminist studies have highlighted the exclusions inherent in this genre, there is a dearth of conceptual terms to think through alternative forms of development. In this c…
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