EMERGENT VOICES OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN WOMEN NOVELISTS festival balloons The end of World War Color:Golden The end of World War II signaled the demise of European colonialism in Southeast Asia The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that follows the famed detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend The implication of such studies is that the new women's investment in her people's goals of gaining freedom from racial masculinist domination and building independent nations inhibits her ability to self actualize and intervene in patriarchal national history Influential historiographics of anti colonial nationalism suggest that women's cultural identities laid out in codes by which they belong to their kin group and share in its collective future are determined by the male elite's contentious relationship with imperialist modernity