چکیده (انگلیسی):

The autobiographical writing by Emily Innes’s The Chersonese with the Gliding offer corded experiences and
turbulence underwent by a White officer’s wife to Malaya with an underlying western perspectives and impression on
the country during pre-Independence period and its people. By using narrative data, this article examines existing power
relations, framed within interactions between the white lady (representing the Self) and her Malay male servants (as the
Other). The use of Michel Foucault’s Technology of Power enables an analysis of power strategies that represent both
binary opposites in order to also trace the existence of gender power. More specifically, it allows a proto-
conceptualisation of types among Malay men that are identifiable during the pre-Independence period. Further
understanding the Malay men, especially of their ego, is important in the growing interest over Postcolonial subject
where it explores forms of resistance, portrayed by the Other in his daily power relation with the Self. Findings reveal
that while power play exists within these interactions, it is a one-sided discourse which sanctions fair play as well as
equality of power distribution.