Warta Jenaka and Wak Ketok: visualising the other in early Malay editorial cartoons

• Main Author: Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya 2021
• Subjects: CB History of civilization; N379 Study of the history of art; NE Print media; P87 Communication. Mass media
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/111390/8/111390_Warta%20Jenaka%20and%20Wak%20Ketok.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/111390/; https://jpmm.um.edu.my/index.php/JPMM/issue/view/1845; https://doi.org/10.22452/jpmm.vol22no2.3

This article defines Malay identity through their portrayal of the Malay Other – the Arabs, Indian Muslims and the Europeans. The Arabs and Peranakan Arabs were identified as foreigners in disguise, the Europeans colonisers as harbingers of modernity. From this perspective not much has been written,...