书目名称 | Reading Malaysian Literature in English | 副标题 | Ethnicity, Gender, D | 编辑 | Mohammad A. Quayum | 视频video | | 概述 | 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 receiv | 丛书名称 | Asia in Transition | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 writ | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | 关键词 | Malaysian Literature in English; Malaysian Postcolonial Literature; Nationalism in Malaysian Literatur | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5021-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-981-16-5023-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-981-16-5021-5Series ISSN 2364-8252 Series E-ISSN 2364-8260 | issn_series | 2364-8252 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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