This paper examines an Anglophone Bruneian novel, The Last Bastion of Ingei (2016), by Aammton Alias, as postcolonial speculative fiction. Employing the double lines of enquiry provided by the Orientalist colonial gaze and ideology of progress, I discuss symbolic and materialist aspects of the violent processes of othering experienced within the Bruneian nation. The novel delineates the way that a colonial mindset undermines indigenous and minority identities. I contend that the hybridity of human-hantu relations functions as a strategy of resistance by collapsing demarcated boundaries between self and alien other. A further revival of the cultures of indigenous Malays, non-indigenous Ibans, and Penans within Brunei exhibits the extent to which the novel’s project of decolonization is promoted. Furthermore, a dystopian world of conflict is rejected in an ultimate desire for utopian peace and happiness as the novel calls for a suturing of social and racial divisions. To this end, a unified nation is yearned for via speculative scenes of reconciled relations of its family members. Hence, I argue that this novel offers a valuable critique of the conditions of postcolonial identity through contested powers, spaces and voices through its speculative narrative plot.

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他人的暴力和（非）土著复兴：Aammton Alias的《 Ingei的最后堡垒》：文莱达鲁萨兰国的后殖民投机小说迫在眉睫

本文考察了Aammton Alias撰写的英语布鲁诺式小说《 Ingei的最后堡垒》（2016），作为后殖民的投机小说。我利用东方殖民主义的凝视和进步意识形态提供的双重询问，讨论了布鲁内民族内部经历的暴力交往的暴力过程的象征意义和唯物主义方面。小说描绘了一种殖民思想破坏土著和少数民族身份的方式。我认为，人与汉图关系的混合性通过破坏自我与外来他人之间的界限来起到抵抗的作用。文莱内土著马来人，非土著伊本人和槟城文化的进一步复兴，显示了小说非殖民化计划的推广程度。此外，反乌托邦式的冲突世界被乌托邦式的和平与幸福的最终渴望所拒绝，因为小说呼吁缝合社会和种族分裂。为此，人们渴望通过其家人之间和解关系的投机场面来实现一个统一的国家。因此，我认为这部小说通过其投机性叙述情节通过有争议的权力，空间和声音对后殖民身份的条件提出了有价值的批评。