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Southeast Asia in Global History While Alexander the Greatâs famous conquest brought Hellenistic influences as far as northern India, his legend spread over even vaster territories, stretching from Britain to Southeast Asia. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, various Malay courts in the Southeast Asian archipelago appropriated the legends of Alexander for their own histories and traced their royal genealogies back to him. A recovery of this little-known history of Alexander in an Austronesian language of peoples who adopted Greek stories, even though they did not have contact with Alexanderâs armies, should lead us to rethink nationalist histories, our definition of Europe, and our assumptions about Europeâs relation to the rest of the world. The current division of the world into North and South (or East and West) that derived from the notion of three worldsâwherein the South is now largely what used to be the Third Worldâis not simply an economic characterization. As Eric Wolf puts it, âWe have been taught, inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of and in opposition to other societies
Comparative Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2006
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