The Postcolonial Millennium
New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English
- 154 pages
- English
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The Postcolonial Millennium
New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English
About this book
This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in English by exploring selected local and diasporic writings produced in the new postcolonial millennium, including works by established, emerging, and new writers.
The literary developments in this new millennium have been substantial and are reflected in the production of new voices, viewpoints, themes, trends, styles, and forms. By articulating these changing postcolonial perspectives and conditions, the chapters in this volume can inform and enrich the study of nation, society, and culture in a globalized and hyperreal age. Tapping into the difference, diversity, and hybridity of 21st-century historicized and glocalized multicultural Malaysia, the millennium writings explore the changing identities and relations and their social, cultural, and political dimensions through the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class. By examining new, different, or changing ideas, forms, themes, and representations, this book considers the vital ways the millennium voices and viewpoints can potentially help us critically rethink and resituate postcolonial studies on Malaysia as they spotlight challenges and new directions in the field.
The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and scholars in the field of Malaysian writing in English, Southeast Asian literature, Asian literature, diaspora, and literary studies. The chapters in the book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction—The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English
- 1 China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire
- 2 Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors
- 3 Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day
- 4 Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad
- 5 Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’s Parang and Millefiori
- 6 On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today
- 7 The ruins of referentiality: Allegorical realism and traumatic fragments in Scorpion Orchid and The Search
- 8 Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk
- 9 Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z
- Index