Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Publication Year
Articles 31 - 60 of 1702
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Knowing The Natives: Racial Formations And Resistance In Early Colonial Narratives Of Malaysia, Mohan Ambikaipaker
Knowing The Natives: Racial Formations And Resistance In Early Colonial Narratives Of Malaysia, Mohan Ambikaipaker
Kunapipi
If there is one major qualification to be made for the post in the post-colonial it is that the political nationalism that took formerly colonised societies into freedom and independence was, as Partha Chateijee has termed it, a 'derivative discourse',^ which relies heavily on the paradigms and frameworks that are bequeathed by colonialism, even while appearing to be anti-colonial. With regard to Malaysia, the area of 'race' is one of the institutionalised political and Uterary discourses which continues to occupy a dominant position in a post/neo-colonial situation. The dream of nineteenth-century European racism with its ideology of a racially coherent …
Peace, Progress, Prosperity, Kee Thuan Chye
Peace, Progress, Prosperity, Kee Thuan Chye
Kunapipi
Be silent. That's the passport for peace. The country belongs to those who shut their minds, learn to unlearn what they once believed, apply their PhDs to save their own skins. The country still thrives, with little yes-men trying to act big — 'no, this cannot; no, that is too sensitive, shut up, you're a dog barking at a hill!' In years to come, we may completely lose our voices, but our skins will be just as thin.
Competing Subjectivities In The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole, Jacqueline Lo
Competing Subjectivities In The Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole, Jacqueline Lo
Kunapipi
The Singaporean playwright, Kuo Pao Kun, was one of the many political activists detained under the Internal Security Act during one of the government's massive communist purges in 1976. He was detained for four and a half years. In light of his continuing participation in Singaporean theatre, Kuo has, understandably, been careful to refer to this period as a 'very deep education process'. Kuo describes the experience in terms of artistic and philosophical shifts rather than drawing attention to the political impact of imprisonment. My aim in this essay is to argue that imprisonment had a more profound effect on …
Desert Island Fantasia, Syd Harrex
Desert Island Fantasia, Syd Harrex
Kunapipi
In another life I would have fallen in love with you We would have been ship-wrecked. that's true, washed ashore changing to each other inside a cradle of kelp.
Poems, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
'Do You Wish To Join This Society Or Not?': The Paradox Of Nationhood In Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid, Bernard Wilson
'Do You Wish To Join This Society Or Not?': The Paradox Of Nationhood In Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid, Bernard Wilson
Kunapipi
Lloyd Fernando is one of three prose writers (the other two being Lee Kok Liang and K.S. Maniam) who should rightfully be considered at the forefront of Malaysian literature written in English. Despite stylistic differences, each of these authors, through their examination of postcolonialism, marginalisation, and the painful quest for cultural and racial unification, has asked significant questions concerning hybrid or ethnocentric identity. All three provide local settings pregnant with oppositions, all three employ shifting natural landscapes in their writing as backgrounds to the issues of multiple identity that have emerged from Malaysia's colonial past and multiracial present. Central to …
Fell Sergeant, Lloyd Fernando
Fell Sergeant, Lloyd Fernando
Kunapipi
Kassim called Partha to say that Kevin had died. 'An accident in the Belidau railway station. Part of the train was shunting very slowly,' Kassim said. 'Kevin on the platform thought it was leaving, ran after it and missed his footing jumping on.' 'His withered arm didn't help,' Kassim said, 'Can you imagine? I found Lillian on the platform screaming without ceasing, going from one bystander to another until I came back.' Pressing the receiver to his ear Partha said, 'Came back?' 'I was seeing them off to Penang. Kevin and Lillian. I had gone to a stall to get …
Sharing A Commonwealth In Malaysia, Kee Thuan Chye
Sharing A Commonwealth In Malaysia, Kee Thuan Chye
Kunapipi
What is meant by 'sharing a commonwealth in Malaysia' as pertains to literature? I shall address it from the point of view of the writer. And because I am a writer writing in English rather than Malay, which is the national language, my views will be coloured by that bias. To me, writers share a commonwealth if they feel they belong to a community that ensures equal rights for all; provides them with nurture, support, even funding; accords them official recognition — in short, makes them feel wanted. In Malaysia, such a commonwealth does exist but for those who write …
Novelist With Wheels For Lloyd Fernando, Syd Harrex
Novelist With Wheels For Lloyd Fernando, Syd Harrex
Kunapipi
Though you are for now in a wheel-chair for meetings in public, because it's your sari-soft hand I'm holding I don't feel I'm bending, kneeling, 'God forbid' I hear your thought say in the silence of a smile. The words we always were to each other have resisted impairment and decay. It's horses for courses as usual, so galloping is not on for the present. But resuming a golden gait is — not, I mean Straight is the Gate, a text you know better than me anyway. Your patient ambition to climb a mountain a few toe and finger metres …
Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute, Anna Rutherford
Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute, Anna Rutherford
Kunapipi
I feel very privileged to have been asked to introduce to you all today Professor Lloyd Fernando. Our friendship goes back a long time, just over thirty years to be exact, when many of the young people in the audience were not even born. Our original meeting took place at the very first conference of ACLALS which was held at the University of Queensland in 1968. The Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies had been formed several years before by Professor A.N. Jeffares. I should add here that I have always had problems with the word Commonwealth — Common …
Kunapipi 22(1) 2000 Editorial, Contents, Anna Rutherford, Anne Collett
Kunapipi 22(1) 2000 Editorial, Contents, Anna Rutherford, Anne Collett
Kunapipi
Editorial, Contents
Notes On Contributors, Index, Anna Rutherford
A Round, Jon Stallworthy
A Round, Jon Stallworthy
Kunapipi
Lead ore lifted from a Cornish mine, married in a furnace to Cornish tin, their one flesh pewter, a barnacled plate salvaged from the ribs of a ship of the line, in Cape Town market sold for a florin, bartered for biltong in the Free State, a farmer's wedding present for his bride to shine, until - with the wagon-team taken, the farm in flames - she cried as he melted it down, tilting its gleam to the lips of his bullet-mould, one of whose slugs would open a seam in a Cornish miner's son.
Of History And Memory: Re-Reading Selected Stories By Herman Charles Bosman On The Anglo-Boer War, Marita Wenzel
Of History And Memory: Re-Reading Selected Stories By Herman Charles Bosman On The Anglo-Boer War, Marita Wenzel
Kunapipi
Re-negotiating the past, a predominant concern of contemporary postcolonial literature and criticism, is also a relevant issue in South African literature today. For the most part, emphasis is placed on different interpretations of the past: personal experience and memories of historical events as opposed to available official documentation.1 In the present context, the centenary of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) has raised a considerable amount of speculation and revisitation of documents, monuments, memoirs, and fictional accounts.
Blood, Liz Gunner
Blood, Liz Gunner
Kunapipi
l who have lived here for so long I cannot remember my home of olive trees and brown valleys, and when a letter comes from my brother in Tuscany it seems like a hoarse whisper from another planet. I who have prayed with the pious and the wicked and helped the dusty children with their torn books -when I think of this story I want to weep. And there are things I do not come near to understanding unless I turn to Almighty God and the Blessed Virgin and I know as I say Mass chewing the Zulu with my …
Boers And Bores: International Delegations And Internal Debates, Barbara Harlow
Boers And Bores: International Delegations And Internal Debates, Barbara Harlow
Kunapipi
While the Boer War has been much chronicled for its famous battlefields such as Spion Kop, for its besieged towns from Ladysmith to Kimberley and Mafeking, and for its battle tactics of conventional and guerrilla warfare, there is as well the rather less recounted story of the 'barbarities' practiced by the various parties to the conflict, and of the British anti-war movement that the contest inspired. The beginning of the fighting in October 1899 came but a few months following the signing of the Hague Conventions I and II on the 'conduct of war', documents which heralded the twentieth century's …
The Absent-Minded War: The Boer War In James Joyce's Ulysses, Richard Brown
The Absent-Minded War: The Boer War In James Joyce's Ulysses, Richard Brown
Kunapipi
The historical event survives in the modernist literary text not as fact or fixity but as a trace, a textual memory that may be refracted through the multiple private perspectives of character, through literary language, and through innovative technologies of narrative form. One such trace in Ulysses relates to the Boer War, an historical event whose significance, arguably, becomes more complex the more closely we focus on the processes of its refraction through the three central private consciousnesses of Joyce's book. This war that ended the nineteenth-century and opened the twentieth, finds a suitable home in a novel that itself …
Major Tunbridge's Boer War Album: An Australian Construction Of 'The Other', David Dorward
Major Tunbridge's Boer War Album: An Australian Construction Of 'The Other', David Dorward
Kunapipi
The South African War was important in moulding the Australian Federation and in the creation of national self-identity. The controversies surrounding the rebel figure, Breaker Morant, addressed by Shirley Walker in an earlier issue of Kunapipi, continually resurface in the popular press, encompassing as that figure does many ambiguities of Australian national mythology that found expression at Gallipoli. 1 Memoirs and celebratory accounts of the war abound in which, however, the war is set apart, projected as an event outside: men seemingly returned and got on with their lives. Scant attention has been given to the significance of the South …
Dead Man's Disclosure, Stephen Gray
Dead Man's Disclosure, Stephen Gray
Kunapipi
My soul to keep in a coffin, trod beneath (bare) (foot) people (my mortal remains), sloth-bear pads, goats graze (pressed in wood) roots entwine (casket) (cask) this where banyans walk in Muybridge locomotion reco(r)ding their raiders' myths of succession: Taprobana Insula (Ptolemy) for Roman turtleshell Serendib for silk, Kandy for ruby Copra from Ceylon, Beira (Slave Island) Lake
My Danie Theron, Sheila Roberts
My Danie Theron, Sheila Roberts
Kunapipi
It's the 1901 photograph of me that's most admired by sentimental fanciers of Boer War Heroes, one where I'm standing behind my pushbike, left hand holding the handlebars, right hand steadying the saddle. My legs are straddled and there's a jaunty twist to my hips. I look off to the left, my head turned away from the handlebars. My head is at a different angle from my torso, and my legs on a different plane from my body, exactly as if I'd been posed by, say, Michelangelo. My stance emphasizes my readiness to leap onto the saddle and pedal away …
Moth Hall Museum, Ladysmith, Steven Matthews
Moth Hall Museum, Ladysmith, Steven Matthews
Kunapipi
In the vast barroom below, pool upon pool of baize stands uncontested as, on a fissured white wall, a small television roars out the latest Bok ambush of foreign raiders.
Ladysmith And All That: Mary Moore Writes Of War, Sylvia Vietzen
Ladysmith And All That: Mary Moore Writes Of War, Sylvia Vietzen
Kunapipi
Wherever you go the talk is of nothing but war, its chances, its horrors. Everybody wants it but everybody dreads it.I Pray don't think we were in a panic [sic] we were sewing shirts all day long we got so used to the idea that we should soon see the boers that we went to look at the hills from the verandas with field glasses to spy their guns.2
Love, Death And Money In Mashonaland: Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket, Carolyn Burdett
Love, Death And Money In Mashonaland: Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket, Carolyn Burdett
Kunapipi
When wars are fought, anxiety about sexual behaviour never seems far away. Will men behave like men on the battlefield? Or will they misbehave like men, and commit atrocities against soldiers or civilians - and even, perhaps, against women? Such worries surfaced in the English periodical press during the Boer War in a sharp exchange between the journalist and campaigner, W.T. Stead,1 and the writer Arthur Conan Doyle. In a piece entitled Methods of Barbarism (1901),2 Stead charged British troops with the sexual abuse and rape of unprotected Boer women made vulnerable by the British policy of destroying Boer homesteads. …
The Anglo-Boer War: An Indian Perspective, Judith M. Brown
The Anglo-Boer War: An Indian Perspective, Judith M. Brown
Kunapipi
The Anglo-Boer War is conventionally seen as part of the history of southern Africa or of British imperialism. This essay offers an Indian perspective on the conflict, in particular as it was experienced and seen through the eyes of a young Indian lawyer. M.K. Gandhi, later renowned as a religious visionary, social critic, advocate of non-violence, and a powerful opponent of British imperialism in India, in the early months of the confltct organized and helped to lead an Indian ambulance corps in the service of the government. This was one of his earliest interventions in imperial politics, for which he …
Frontier Transculturation And Transgression In The Early Eastern Cape, Malvern Van Wyk Smith
Frontier Transculturation And Transgression In The Early Eastern Cape, Malvern Van Wyk Smith
Kunapipi
The multicultural dynamics of the Eastern Cape frontier, and the story of the major actors in its drama of transculturation, conflict, and transgression, are foundational in South African history. It was here, after all, as Clifton Crais and Tim Keegan have reminded us, that the South African colonial and racial order came into being, and it was here, too, that major resistance to that order would in due course emerge.1 In this paper, however, my focus will not be on the captains and kings, governors and chiefs, rulers and radicals who at various times decided the fate of the Eastern …
The Interpreter, Andries Walter Oliphant
The Interpreter, Andries Walter Oliphant
Kunapipi
The entries in my diary, anyone familiar with my record of the siege knows, break off on the penultimate day of the third month of the new century. This was just a day before the end of the first quarter of the new age. This time had no special meaning except that the sun, scorching the sand and stones all summer, suddenly fell further west and away from us. Autumn set in. The earth cooled but I lost none of my desire to write.
A War Of White Savages, And Other Stories: Introduction, Elleke Boehmer
A War Of White Savages, And Other Stories: Introduction, Elleke Boehmer
Kunapipi
In 1999/2000, looking back from our vantage point at this century's turn, the Second Anglo-Boer or 'Great' South African War, October 1899-May 1902, seems (even more starkly than it perhaps did before) to have laid long shadows across southern African political and cultural history of the last 100 years. These are shadows which, even if to a lesser degree, fall across twentieth-century world history and historical imaginations also. Dismissed in the past as one of Britain's many forgotten imperial wars - though a particularly costly and hard-won one - the Boer War, and the blow it represented to imperial morale, …
Kunapipi 21(3) 1999 Contents, Anna Rutherford
Notes On Contributors, Index, Anna Rutherford
A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years Of Caribbean Migration To Britain, Caryl Phillips
A Dream Deferred: Fifty Years Of Caribbean Migration To Britain, Caryl Phillips
Kunapipi
Text of the Arthur Ravenscroft Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Leeds, 11 May 1998 I have imagined the scene many times. We are in the late 1940s, or in the 1950s, or even in the early 1960s. Crowds of young West Indians are peering from the deck of a ship, eagerly securing their first view of the white cliffs of Dover. Before them lies a new land and a new future. At the moment of that first sighting I imagine that their dominant emotion would have been that of a profound sense of loss, for clearly they knew …