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Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism: Asia in Transition, cartea 16

Editat de Mohammad A. Quayum
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 noi 2022
This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on the postcolonial themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The book explores the works of not just the established writers of the tradition but also those who have received little critical attention to date but who are equally gifted, such as Adibah Amin, Edward Dorall, Rehaman Rashid, and Huzir Suleiman. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English is widely used in daily life and yet marginalised in the creative domain to elevatethe status of writings in the national language, i.e., Bahasa Malaysia. The book will demonstrate that in spite of such recurrent neglect of the medium, Malaysia has produced a number of outstanding writers in the language, who are comparable in creativity and craftsmanship to writers of other Anglophone traditions. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, postcolonial literatures, minority literatures, gender studies, and Southeast Asian studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789811650239
ISBN-10: 9811650233
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: XXXIV, 216 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer Nature Singapore
Colecția Springer
Seria Asia in Transition

Locul publicării:Singapore, Singapore

Cuprins

Introduction.- “My Country”/ “Our Country”.- Inclusion, Factionalism and the Nation in the Writings of Lloyd Fernando.- Rehabilitating the Historical Landscape.- Detribalising Malaysia.- Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and National Identity in Three Malaysian English Plays.- The NEP and Vision 2020.- Paths Less Trodden.

Notă biografică

Mohammad A. Quayum is a veteran critic of Malaysian Anglophone literature with thirteen books and numerous articles on the subject to his credit. He has also published extensively on such leading American and South Asian writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Rabindranath Tagore, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, and Saul Bellow. After teaching for over four decades at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US, he hastily retired from International Islamic University Malaysia in 2020 to return home to Australia because of the pandemic. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Flinders University and the University of South Australia. His latest publications include A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Orient BlackSwan), Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim (in the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Stanford University), Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Companion(Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (Routledge).

Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on the postcolonial themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The book explores the works of not just the established writers of the tradition but also those who have received little critical attention to date but who are equally gifted, such as Adibah Amin, Edward Dorall, Rehaman Rashid, and Huzir Suleiman. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English is widely used in daily life and yet marginalised in the creative domain to elevatethe status of writings in the national language, i.e., Bahasa Malaysia. The book will demonstrate that in spite of such recurrent neglect of the medium, Malaysia has produced a number of outstanding writers in the language, who are comparable in creativity and craftsmanship to writers of other Anglophone traditions. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, postcolonial literatures, minority literatures, gender studies, and Southeast Asian studies.

Caracteristici

Brings together a group of scholars from around the world on the neglected area of Malaysian literature in English First book to cover several Malaysian writers in the English language who have received little critical attention Extensively addresses the themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism in Malaysian postcolonial literature