The Last Bastion of Ingei by Aammton Alias

Using a localized EcoGothiccritical framework, I argue that the novelreflectsIndigenous ecological beliefs and practices, wherein nature and the supernatural destabilize and undermine anthropocentric ways of knowing and relating to the nonhuman. This article posits gothic depictions of the haunted forest as important counter-narratives to extractivist representations of nature in public narratives in Brunei, including government policy and advertising for environmental tourism.The critical discussion will focus on a contemporary Bruneian text, Aammton Alias’sThe Last Bastion of Ingei(2016). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (). Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Keywords: Malay Motifs Sarawak Songket eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. This study shared different design Malay songket motifs in Sarawak and represent their tradition in textile heritage. The identification process defined that the Sarawak traditional Malay songket motifs mainly develop from various floral sources reflecting and inspiring nature. This project begins with a review of related literature that provides an example of textile-also supported with visual data on Sarawak traditional Malay songket gathered from the field visit, which is captured into the digital compilation. This article also makes a case for the diversification of local literary and cultural production to effectively reorient public narratives of the environment.This study is partly an ongoing project to identify the floral motifs design on Sarawak traditional Malay songket. To this end, I examine the ways in which nature and the supernatural are portrayed and how nonhuman agencies disrupt anthropocentric narration and reading. EcoGothicnarratives can thus be seen as crucial representational models of anti-extractivism that reimagine human-nonhuman relations beyond anthropocentric epistemologies.

The Last Bastion of Ingei by Aammton Alias