QR Code Link : Type : article Subject : General Works History General and Old World ISSN : 0967-828X Main Author : Muhammad Haji Salleh Title : Turning the Pahang colonial page Narratives of definition in three phases Edition : Volume 17, Number 1, 27-46, 2009

Place of Production : Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Publisher : Universiti Sains Malaysia Corporate Name : Universiti Sains Malaysia Location : Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Web Link : Click to view web link PDF Guest : Click to view PDF file

Abstract : Universiti Sains Malaysia

This article proposes a reading of the narratives of Pahang through three literary phases, moving from the colonial period, through the early post-colonial years, to the post-colonial period in an independent Malaysia. The narratives reflect not only the times but also the minds of the authors, particularly their personal and official outlooks and attitudes, which in turn were determined by the colonial or independent state. The first work, Hugh Clifford’s Saleh: A Prince of Malaya, was published in 1926 and depicts an age of rebellion against the British from 1891–95; the second, Ishak Haji Muhammad’s The Prince of Mount Tahan, was first published in Malay in 1937 during high colonial times, and contains a subplot of that same end-of-century uprising; and finally, Keris Mas’s Jungle of Hope, first published in Malaysia 31 years after the 1957 Independence, is one of Malaysia’s

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