Playing along the Perak River: Readings of an Eighteenth-Century Malay State

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  • Husni Abu Bakar
    Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California

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This essay questions the construction of cartographic, historical, and literary artifacts underlying the cognitive foundations of an eighteenth-century Southeast Asian state on the Malay Peninsula.Perak.by exploring alternative modes of reading. Through a narratological and historiographical exploration of nonconventional textual elements in Misa Melayu.a Malay text that contains accounts of Perak's statecraft.and several other primary and secondary sources, I seek new, alternative, more playful, and enlightening ways of navigating and thinking about a Malay(sian) geopolitical entity beyond prescribed Cartesian maps and boundaries.

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  • Southeast Asian Studies

    Southeast Asian Studies 4 (1), 157-190, 2015

    Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

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