Reading Globalization from the Margin
The Case of Abdullah Munshi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4369929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanjay Krishnan (0000-0001-6968-4090, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-73 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2007.99.1.40 |
| OpenAlex | W2017578666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In this essay I argue that the global perspective, established in the era of modern European imperialism, is given institutional expression as a way of seeing that is engaged-both by ruler and ruled-as the frame of adequate representation. Briefly outlining how this frame operates in historical and cultural studies today, I examine its deployment in mid-nineteenth-century Melaka and Singapore through a reading of the Hikayat Abdullah, a seminal Malay-language text composed by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir. Although Abdullah self-consciously sets about reproducing the global perspective, I show how this mode of thematization is interrupted and displaced as it brings about an encounter between the diverse and uneven contexts of the native and European worlds
Aesthetics · Art · Globalization · Linguistics · Malay · Political science · Ruler · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Education and Islamic Studies · Engineering · History · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |