Making of a native orientalist: latent orientalism in confessions of an old boy: The Dato’ Hamid Adventures

• Main Authors: Ahmad Thamrini Fadzlin B. Syed Mohamed,, Noraini Bt. Md. Yusof,, Ruzy Suliza Hashim,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2010
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1040/1/AhmadThamrini.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1040/; http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

The purpose of this paper is to examine the sustaining effects of colonialism perpetuated in one of Malaysia‟s premier schools, The Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK), as discerned through Kam Raslan‟s Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato‟ Hamid Adventures (2007). By highlighting that culture is a le...