The Long Shadow Of The 19th Century (Farish A. Noor)
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Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leuwens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States in the nineteenth century and then wrote about they knew.
Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as a culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.
Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as a culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism.