creators_name: Lim, David C. L.
editors_name: Lim, David C. L.
type: book_section
datestamp: 2011-07-11 09:02:58
lastmod: 2011-07-11 09:28:07
metadata_visibility: show
corp_creators: Open University Malaysia
title: "Why aren't you a Muslim?"Pride and prejudice through Gunawan Mahmood's teen fiction
ispublished: pub
subjects: DS
full_text_status: none
keywords: Race awareness -- Malaysia ; Malaysia -- Race relations
note: This e-book is available at Tan Sri Dr Abdullah Sanusi Digital Library's ebrary online database. 
abstract: This essay examines the role of the dominant Malay intelligentsia in imagining Malaysia, using as platform for discussion two contemporary teen novels by Gunawan Mahmood: This Land (originally published in Malay as Tanah Ini in 1996; out in English translation in 2002) and Namaku Ayoko (My Name is Ayoko; 1994). The chosen author and texts are little known outside of the Malay literary world, which alters not the fact that Gunawan is a multiple award-winning, state-affiliated writer who, like many of his Malay-Muslim contemporaries and predecessors, believes that “those with knowledge ought to write” and “literature should educate, awaken and inspire society” (in Mahmood, 1993:x). Gunawan is an ‘intellectual’ insofar as he participates in the production and distribution of knowledge, as someone who professes a vocation for the art of “representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public” (Said, 1996:11). (Text by author)


date: 2008
date_type: published
volume: 19
publisher: Brill
place_of_pub: Leiden, NLD 
pagerange: 63-82
pages: 196
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9789047433705
book_title: Social Sciences in Asia, Volume 19 : Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies
citation:   Lim, David C. L.  (2008) "Why aren't you a Muslim?"Pride and prejudice through Gunawan Mahmood's teen fiction.   In:  Social Sciences in Asia, Volume 19 : Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies.   Brill, Leiden, NLD , pp. 63-82.  ISBN 9789047433705