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Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

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Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of rojak (Malay, meaning “mixture”), together with Ien Ang’s evocative “together-in-difference,” enables the analysis to move beyond the immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and remembering. Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of “different” people living together, and the search for home and identity in a world on the move. Each of the chapters designates a different space for exploring these cultures of “mixedness” and their contradictions—whether these involve “old” and “new” forms of sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of pleasure and risk in eating “differently.” Simply put, Eating Together is about understanding complex forms of multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442227419

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Reclaiming Adat

Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature

By: Gaik Cheng Khoo

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Reclaiming Adat

Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature

By: Gaik Cheng Khoo

In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an emphasis on sexuality and a return to archaic forms such as magic and traditional healing. Using close textual readings of literature and film, Khoo Gaik Cheng reveals the tensions between gender, modernity, and nation. Khoo weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers. Reclaiming Adat makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of the complexities embedded in modern Malaysian culture, politics, and identity.

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UBC Press

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0774841443

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Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

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Eating Together

Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

By: Jean Duruz,Gaik Cheng Khoo

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