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Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.

This paper examines the construction of working-class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working-class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer...

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Main Author: Lim, David C. L.
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2006
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HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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spelling my.oum.3802010-03-30T03:24:24Z Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit. Lim, David C. L. HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform This paper examines the construction of working-class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working-class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into account both filmic elements and the sexual geography of Kuala Lumpur (KL), where shifting biker spaces sometimes intersect with homosexual cruising sites. My argument is that the film’s representation of the Mat Motor protagonist as unbendingly straight and heterosexually jantan – while imaginably gratifying to the core audience of Mat Motors – actually belies the opposite reality of KL’s ‘forgotten’ underside, where gender and sexuality are much more fluid and malleable than is sanctioned by society and the state. (Author's abstract) Taylor & Francis 2006-03 Article PeerReviewed Lim, David C. L. (2006) Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7 (1). pp. 62-80. ISSN 1464-9373 http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/380/
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topic HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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Lim, David C. L.
Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
description This paper examines the construction of working-class Mat Motor (Malay biker) masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit, a commercial biker film that exudes the unmistakably aura of working-class kejantanan (masculinity). Specifically, I focus on how the film – or more precisely the ‘queer moments’ it contains – resonates in ways that are not necessarily obvious to the disinterested heterosexual public eye. The discussion takes into account both filmic elements and the sexual geography of Kuala Lumpur (KL), where shifting biker spaces sometimes intersect with homosexual cruising sites. My argument is that the film’s representation of the Mat Motor protagonist as unbendingly straight and heterosexually jantan – while imaginably gratifying to the core audience of Mat Motors – actually belies the opposite reality of KL’s ‘forgotten’ underside, where gender and sexuality are much more fluid and malleable than is sanctioned by society and the state. (Author's abstract)
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author Lim, David C. L.
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title Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
title_short Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
title_full Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
title_fullStr Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
title_full_unstemmed Cruising Mat Motor : Malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through KL Menjerit.
title_sort cruising mat motor : malay biker masculinity and queer desire in/through kl menjerit.
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