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Seminar | Racial narrations in the Malay Archipelago during the Greater East Asia war | Sandra Manickam

KITLV, Room 138 Reuvensplaats 2, Leiden

This talk will focus on the racial ideas circulating during the occupation of Malaya and Sumatra during World War II. In attempts to forge a greater archipelagic community, local writers for Japanese-sponsored Malay newspapers and magazines made use of racial studies in order to inform readers of the other related races in the archipelago as well as to argue for closer connections between different peoples in what could be a future political entity