{"product_id":"the-long-shadow-of-the-19th-century-critical-essays-on-colonial-orientalism-in-southeast-asia","title":"The Long Shadow of the 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFarish A Noor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 404 pages\u003cbr\u003e9789672328612\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritical Essays on Colonial Orientalism in Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century — and then wrote about what they saw. 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. Many of the tropes used by these colonial-era scholars and travellers, such as the indolence or savagery of the native population, are still very much in use today — which means we still live in the long shadow of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matahari Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41038890008611,"sku":"9789672328612","price":18.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_6687.jpg?v=1762857979","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.mom\/products\/the-long-shadow-of-the-19th-century-critical-essays-on-colonial-orientalism-in-southeast-asia","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}