Language Ungoverned
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst''s Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chi...
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst''s Language Ungoverned examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations.
As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chi...
