Making heritage in Malaysia : sites, histories, identities /: sites, histories, identities. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sharmani Patricia Gabriel.
• Editors: Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia
• Contents: Introduction: Postcolonialising Heritage and the Idea of 'Malaysia'.- PART I: (RE)TELLING MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY STORIES.- Negotiating Museum Narratives: The Sarawak Museum, the Brooke State, and the Construction of Cultural Heritage, 1886-1963.- The Serdang Folk Museum and the Performance of Heritage: Community Museums as an Alternative to National Heritage.- Dual Triumphalist Heritage Narrative and the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement.- PART II: (RE)MAPPING MULTICULTURAL AND FOLKLORE HERITAGE.- Cultural Mapping and the Making of Heritage.- Re(Con)figuring the Nenek Kebayan through Folktale Adaptation: Malaysian Folktales as Literary and Cultural Heritage.- PART III: THE SMALL TOWN, NOSTALGIA, AND THE ENVIRONMENT.- The Small Town as Heritage in the Writings of Rehman Rashid and Shih-Li Kow.- 'The unmovable self situated in the quicksand of memory': Nostalgia and Intangible Natural Heritage in the Weather Poems of Shirley Geok-lin Lim.- PART IV: IMAGINED AND COSMOPOLITAN HERITAGE.- Imagined Heritage: Ee Tiang Hong's 'Eternal' Melaka.- 'Add Place and Stir': Ownership, Authenticity, and the 'Malaysian' Kari Kapitan.- 'Boria Everywhere in the World': A Penang Burlesque and the Politics of Heritage.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 959.5; Historic preservation -- Malaysia; Cultural property -- Protection -- Malaysia; National characteristics, Malaysian; Malaysia -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811514944
• Related ISBNs: 9789811514937
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