Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories (Record no. 531606)
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| Personal name | Saxena, Vandana and Saigaran, Nithiya Guna |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Songs of Tamil plantation women of Malaya: Contesting memories and histories |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 59(1), Jan, 2025: p.265-288 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This article is an outcome of a search for the Tamil plantation woman in Malaysia and her voice—her stories and memories, in her own words. Through the plantation songs of Tamil workers in Malaysia, first collated and published in the 1980s, we explore the experiences and memories of these women, singing about their lives and work in the Malayan plantations. As memory-work, these songs constitute an oral history that provides an uneasy counter to hegemonic discourses like that of the colonial planters who employed the women, or the nationalist historiography of India and Malaysia where they are sidelined and reduced to figures of abject victimhood in the clutches of colonial capitalism, or the post-colonial discourse where their memories and experiences constitute a shameful past that obstructs optimism for the future. Tamil plantation songs call for a comparative approach to history and memory—between the position of the woman and that of the man, or the labourer and the supervisor/planter, as well as more problematic and shifting positionalities like seducer and the seduced, or the victim and the perpetrator.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/songs-of-tamil-plantation-women-of-malaya-contesting-memories-and-histories/4011258C2D27E3968ACD75EBEC9C1A0D |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Tamil plantation women, Malaysian plantation, Malaysian Indians, Plantation songs, Counter memory. |
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| Main entry heading | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2025-09-18 | 59(1), Jan, 2025: p.265-288 | AR137283 | 2025-09-18 | Articles |