A Travelling Model: The Mythicization and Mobilization of Malcolm X in the Malay World
In this paper, I examine works of fiction, digital resources, and speeches of Malay political ideologues who engaged in the mythologization, monumentalization, and mobilization of Malcolm X's thought. As a travelling model, his life and thought has been translated from one language to another,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bloms Boktryckeri
[2020]
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Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift
Year: 2020, Volume: 96, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-94 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
X, Malcolm 1925-1965
/ Reception
/ Malays
/ Muslim
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam KBM Asia TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | In this paper, I examine works of fiction, digital resources, and speeches of Malay political ideologues who engaged in the mythologization, monumentalization, and mobilization of Malcolm X's thought. As a travelling model, his life and thought has been translated from one language to another, absorbed, adapted, appropriated, and vernacularized among Malay-Indonesian Muslims, ushering novel formulations of the notions of justice, freedom, and equality in a setting Malcolm X was least familiar with but had gained much intellectual stimulus from. It follows then that this paper seeks to address two main gaps in the ever-growing studies on Malcolm X: First, the lack of attention to how his ideas and life story were recast outside the Anglo-American world. Second, I hope to show how a study of Malcolm X can generate the development of new concepts in the path to analyze how political theologies travel from one particular temporality to another. |
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