From his first novel, Almayer's Folly, through to The Rescue near the end of his career,
Malaysia had an important place in Conrad's fiction. Indeed, Conrad's writing career sprang …

The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich
body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial …

Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the
East–centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific–in the colonial and …

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on
individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and …

Celebrated as a leading luxury hotel in the world, the Raffles Hotel stands as a monument to
Singapore's status as a global city of commerce. The century‐old Hotel also represents …

European travel writing (1512–1984) represented Malaysia as a tropical Garden of Eden, an
image that has also percolated into literary texts concerning the region. This article …

Edward Said's dogmas of Orientalism are a succinct summary of western perceptions of the
East, which reveal an essentially racist discourse that also speaks to the westerner's self …

In the 2015 US feature-film Pixels, aliens initiate a series of attacks on Earth after mistaking
video-feeds of classic arcade games (sent into space by the National Aeronautics and …