Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing

Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing

This article links Jungian literary criticism on archetypes with contemporary postcolonial theories on colonial discourse in travel writing (David Spurr) and the worlding of a colonized land (Gayatri Spivak) in order to understand the pattern of images in European travel writing that created the fic...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah, Pillai, Shanthini, Md. Yusof, Noraini
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Language:English
Published: Berghahn Books Ltd. 2011
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PR English literature
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spelling iium-258942013-06-25T01:22:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/25894/ Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah Pillai, Shanthini Md. Yusof, Noraini PR English literature This article links Jungian literary criticism on archetypes with contemporary postcolonial theories on colonial discourse in travel writing (David Spurr) and the worlding of a colonized land (Gayatri Spivak) in order to understand the pattern of images in European travel writing that created the fiction of Malaya. This fiction is created through a process of worlding by European travelers from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. The practice of Islam and magic among the Malays was represented as contributing to the degeneration of Malaya. The resulting image is that of an Eden that has fallen into ruin and that needs to be transformed back into paradise by the white man. Berghahn Books Ltd. 2011-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25894/1/journeys%5B1%5D.pdf Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah and Pillai, Shanthini and Md. Yusof, Noraini (2011) Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing. Journeys, 12 (1). pp. 22-46. ISSN 1752-2358 (O), 1465-2609 (P) http://www.berghahnbooks.com/journals/index.php 10.3167/jys.2011.120102
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Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
Pillai, Shanthini
Md. Yusof, Noraini
Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
description This article links Jungian literary criticism on archetypes with contemporary postcolonial theories on colonial discourse in travel writing (David Spurr) and the worlding of a colonized land (Gayatri Spivak) in order to understand the pattern of images in European travel writing that created the fiction of Malaya. This fiction is created through a process of worlding by European travelers from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. The practice of Islam and magic among the Malays was represented as contributing to the degeneration of Malaya. The resulting image is that of an Eden that has fallen into ruin and that needs to be transformed back into paradise by the white man.
format Article
author Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
Pillai, Shanthini
Md. Yusof, Noraini
author_facet Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
Pillai, Shanthini
Md. Yusof, Noraini
author_sort Ahmad, Siti Nuraishah
title Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
title_short Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
title_full Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
title_fullStr Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
title_full_unstemmed Rehabilitating Eden: archetypal images of Malaya in travel writing
title_sort rehabilitating eden: archetypal images of malaya in travel writing
publisher Berghahn Books Ltd.
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/25894/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/25894/1/journeys%5B1%5D.pdf
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