Assistant Professor Razif Bahari
Room 34
Asian Languages and Cultures
Block 3, National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
Tel: + 65 6790 3507
Fax: + 65 66896 9033
Email: razif.bahari@nie.edu.sg
Background
Razif Bahari received his Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Comparative Literature from Murdoch University, Australia in 1993 and PhD in Literature and the Arts from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2002.
He was awarded an Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the Australian government and a PhD Scholarship from the ANU (1994-1998). Razif has taught full-time in Catholic Junior College, Tanjong Katong Girls' School and Raffles Institution in Singapore.
Research and Teaching
Razif's main interests include the politics of discourse in literature, issues of cultural signifying practices, identity and representation, postcolonial theory and its interventions in exposing the intimate ties between power and the production of knowledge in texts, discourses and cultural spheres. Thus, he is interested in the study of media, popular culture, ethnicity, nationality, hybridity and diasporas. Among his favourite thinkers include Mikhail Bakhtin, Homi Bhabha, Antonio Gramsci, Jean Baudrillard, Gayatri Spivak dan Edward Said.
Razif teaches Modern Malay/Indonesian Literature, Selected Malay Texts, Singapore Malay Literature and the Teaching of Moden Malay Literature at the National Institute of Education.
Publications
Razif's first book, Pramoedya Postcolonially (Bali: Pustaka Larasan, 2007) and its Indonesian translation, Tetralogi Buru: Satu Ancangan Poskolonial (Bali: Pustaka Larasan, 2007), are due to be published this year.
His essays have been been selected in Thomson Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism. ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey W. Hunter, Vol. 186. Detroit: Gale, 2004, pp. 295-313; a reference compendium described as “one of the twenty-five most distinguished reference titles published during the past twenty-five years” by Reference Quarterly; and cited in the International Bibliography of Anthropology, (Oxford, New York: Routledge, 2005), a UNESCO publication. His other publications include:
Razif Bahari, “Reading Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Tetralogy: The Genre of the Novel, Language and the Colonial Subject,” Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Vol. 40, No.1 (2006), pp. 57-83.
Razif Bahari, “Remembering History, W/Righting History: Piecing the Past in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Tetralogy,” INDONESIA, Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program's Journal, No. 75 (April 2003), pp. 61-90.
Razif Bahari, “A Postcolonial Aperçu: Reconceptualising Indonesian History, Nation and Identity in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Tetralogy,” Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Vol. 36, No.2 (2002), pp. 1-27.
Razif Bahari, “The Colonised Subject's Multiple and Transversal Struggle for Selfhood: The Case of A House for Mr Biswas,” SPAN, Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, No. 34-35 (1993), pp.16-36.
