Journey to the West: Malay(si)an women's narratives of travels in England, 1934-58
Abstract: This paper examines two texts by Malay(si)an women: Aishah Ghani’s Ibu Melayu Mengelilingi Dunia (1956) and P.G. Lim’s memoirs, Kaleidoscope (2012). It focusses on the narratives of their journeys to and in England between 1934 and 1958. P.G. Lim (1915-2013) and Aishah Ghani (1923-2013...
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/86305/7/86305%20Journey%20to%20the%20West.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/86305/ https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/2008/1025 |
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This paper examines two texts by Malay(si)an women: Aishah Ghani’s Ibu Melayu
Mengelilingi Dunia (1956) and P.G. Lim’s memoirs, Kaleidoscope (2012). It focusses
on the narratives of their journeys to and in England between 1934 and 1958.
P.G. Lim (1915-2013) and Aishah Ghani (1923-2013) were contemporaries who
lived in Malaya under British colonial rule, participated in nationalist movements
for Malaya’s independence, and served in the post-colonial government of
Malaya and Malaysia in pioneering roles. Their journeys to England took place
before the Second World War and after. Their travel narratives provide readers
with valuable insight into the rapidly changing roles of Malay(si)an women within
a span of twenty-five years. Lim’s and Aishah’s travels to England in the waning
days of the British Empire reveal their experiences and observations of the
imperial centre, and the significance of these to their notions of women’s
freedom of movement and independence from colonial rule. Informed by the
work of Inderpal Grewal on Indian female travellers to the West, this paper aims
to address the limited research on the history of female mobility, travel, and travel
writing in Malay(si)a. |
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