The Postcolonial Millennium: New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English

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Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia) Grace V.S. Chin (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

The Postcolonial Millennium

New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English

Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University, Australia), Grace V.S. Chin (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

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Routledge
04 April 2024

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Regional studies

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.

Edited by: Mohammad A. Quayum (Flinders University Australia), Grace V.S. Chin (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781032669724
ISBN 10: 1032669721
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Mohammad A. Quayum is a full-time researcher and Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. He taught at universities in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US before returning to his alma mater, Flinders University, in 2020. He has published numerous books and articles in American, Bengali, and Southeast Asian literature. His books on Malaysian anglophone literature include Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s-1990s (2003), One Sky, Many Horizons: Studies in Malaysian Literature in English (2014), and Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism (2021). Grace V.S. Chin is Senior Lecturer in English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She specializes in postcolonial Southeast Asian literatures in English and has published journal articles and essays on writers and literary works from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. She has also published edited and co-edited volumes, the latest of which is Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality (2021).