Making Heritage in Malaysia: Sites, Histories, Identities

Introduction: Postcolonialising Heritage and the Idea of Malaysia .- PART I: (RE)TELLING MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY STORIES.- Negotiating Museum Narratives: The Sarawak Museum, the Brooke State, and the Construction of Cultural Heritage, 1886-1963.- The Serdang Folk Museum and the Performance of Heritage: Community Museums as an Alternative to National Heritage.- Dual Triumphalist Heritage Narrative and the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement.- PART II: (RE)MAPPING MULTICULTURAL AND FOLKLORE HERITAGE.- Cultural Mapping and the Making of Heritage.- Re(Con)figuring the Nenek Kebayan through Folktale Adaptation: Malaysian Folktales as Literary and Cultural Heritage.- PART III: THE SMALL TOWN, NOSTALGIA, AND THE ENVIRONMENT.- The Small Town as Heritage in the Writings of Rehman Rashid and Shih-Li Kow.- The unmovable self situated in the quicksand of memory Nostalgia and Intangible Natural Heritage in the Weather Poems of Shirley Geok-lin Lim.- PART IV: IMAGINED AND COSMOPOLITAN HERITAGE.- Imagined Heritage: Ee Tiang Hong’s Eternal Melaka.- Add Place and Stir Ownership, Authenticity, and the Malaysian Kari Kapitan.- Boria Everywhere in the World A Penang Burlesque and the Politics of Heritage.