Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of

The autobiographical writing by Emily Innes’s The Chersonese with the Gliding offer corded experiences and turbulence underwent by a White officer’s wife to Malaya with an underlying western perspectives and impression on the country during pre-Independence period and its people. By using narrativ...

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Main Authors: Ismail, Hanita Hanim, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
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spelling iium-513682017-03-06T05:48:27Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51368/ Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of Ismail, Hanita Hanim Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam PR English literature The autobiographical writing by Emily Innes’s The Chersonese with the Gliding offer corded experiences and turbulence underwent by a White officer’s wife to Malaya with an underlying western perspectives and impression on the country during pre-Independence period and its people. By using narrative data, this article examines existing power relations, framed within interactions between the white lady (representing the Self) and her Malay male servants (as the Other). The use of Michel Foucault’s Technology of Power enables an analysis of power strategies that represent both binary opposites in order to also trace the existence of gender power. More specifically, it allows a protoconceptualisation of types among Malay men that are identifiable during the pre-Independence period. Further understanding the Malay men, especially of their ego, is important in the growing interest over Postcolonial subject where it explores forms of resistance, portrayed by the Other in his daily power relation with the Self. Findings reveal that while power play exists within these interactions, it is a one-sided discourse which sanctions fair play as well as equality of power distribution. Australian International Academic Centre 2016-07-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51368/2/51368.pdf Ismail, Hanita Hanim and Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam (2016) Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of. International Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies, 4 (3). pp. 11-16. E-ISSN 2202-9451 http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJCLTS/article/view/2437 10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.4n.3p.11
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Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
description The autobiographical writing by Emily Innes’s The Chersonese with the Gliding offer corded experiences and turbulence underwent by a White officer’s wife to Malaya with an underlying western perspectives and impression on the country during pre-Independence period and its people. By using narrative data, this article examines existing power relations, framed within interactions between the white lady (representing the Self) and her Malay male servants (as the Other). The use of Michel Foucault’s Technology of Power enables an analysis of power strategies that represent both binary opposites in order to also trace the existence of gender power. More specifically, it allows a protoconceptualisation of types among Malay men that are identifiable during the pre-Independence period. Further understanding the Malay men, especially of their ego, is important in the growing interest over Postcolonial subject where it explores forms of resistance, portrayed by the Other in his daily power relation with the Self. Findings reveal that while power play exists within these interactions, it is a one-sided discourse which sanctions fair play as well as equality of power distribution.
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author Ismail, Hanita Hanim
Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
author_facet Ismail, Hanita Hanim
Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam
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title Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
title_short Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
title_full Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
title_fullStr Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
title_full_unstemmed Politicizing power between the imperial female and the Malay other in Emily Innes’s The Chersonese With The Gilding Of
title_sort politicizing power between the imperial female and the malay other in emily innes’s the chersonese with the gilding of
publisher Australian International Academic Centre
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/51368/
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