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- Title
GLOBAL MALAYSIAN NOVELS: PROSPECTS AND POSSIBILITIES.
- Authors
Holden, Philip
- Abstract
As contemporary Malaysian literature in English is increasingly gaining an international reputation, it cannot be read as primarily reflects of the nation anymore - a trajectory that has more or less underscored scholarship on anglophone Malaysian writer in the last three decades. This paper discusses the "global" nature of writers like Tash Aw and Tan Twan Eng, and elicits the advantages and problems when this category is appended to their works.
- Subjects
FICTION; GLOBALIZATION; MALAYSIAN literature (English); SCHOLARLY method; POSTCOLONIAL literature; MALAYSIAN authors
- Publication
Kajian Malaysia: Journal of Malaysian Studies, 2012, Vol 30, p47
- ISSN
0127-4082
- Publication type
Article