Titlebook: Reading Malaysian Literature in English; Ethnicity, Gender, D Mohammad A. Quayum Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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Rehabilitating the Historical Landscape: Strategies of Containment and Liberation in the Poetry of t a proliferation of spaces. Such a strategy is not unlike the narrative strategies of Salman Rushdie which use the palimpsest to read the different histories of the nation. It also relates to Bill Ashcroft’s concept of “horizonality” which embraces such a recovery of lost, timeless “narrative” spac

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The NEP and Vision 2020: Responses from the Malaysian English-Language Theatre,in this specific period (1991–2018), to see how the ideas/ideologies brought up in these grand narratives are dealt with in the plays. Is there any overlap between the ideas in the two “visions” and the plays? In what ways do the plays reflect and/or challenge the grand narratives? Among the plays I

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Paths Less Trodden: Representations of Indian Women Outside the Plantation Frontier in Colonial Malminant conventions of the drudgery of plantation labour and offering insights into everyday acts that were as much valid as that of records of roll call, labour productivity, and profit margin. It concludes that what we are given are what was to all intents and purposes, the paths less trodden that

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,Rehman Rashid’s Malaysian Journey: Ethnic Identity and Nationalism in Malaysia,ity and nationalism, which compel the reader to view Malaysia in ways which counter authorized narratives of national identity and belonging. Indeed, all his books persistently highlight the collision between what he sees as the rich diversity of Malaysian history and state definitions of Malaysian

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,Matrilineal Legacies: Family, Diaspora, and Memories in Rani Manicka’s ,unity becomes a part of the nation. By placing the memories of mothers at the center, the novel intertwines the matrilineal legacy with a peripheral history—that of the diaspora—to trace its co-existence with the official history of the nation.

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Sincerity and Authenticity in the Poems of Bernice Chauly,: it needs for that articulation to come across—not just to the individual reader but to a potential consensus among readers—as “authentic”. Thus, the essay becomes an inquiry into the viability of a hypothesis which is to be tested with reference to a body of poetry written without any necessary aw

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