Reading Malaysian Literature in English

Chapter 1 Welcoming the Orchid and the Scorpion: The Process of Inclusion and Nation-Building in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid and Cultures in Conflict

Chapter 2 “My Country”/“Our Country”: Race Dynamics and Contesting Nationalisms in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour and Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold

Chapter 3 Rehabilitating the Historical Landscape: Strategies of Containment and Liberation in the Poetry of Ee Tiang Hong and Wong Phui Nam

Chapter 4 Beyond “Tribalism”: Re-imagining Malaysia in Adibah Amin’s This End of the Rainbow

Chapter 5 The NEP and Vision 2020: Responses from the Malaysian English-Language Theatre

Chapter 6 Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and National Identity in Three Malaysian English Plays: A Personal Perspective

Chapter 8 Paths Less Trodden: Representations of Indian Women Outside the Plantation Frontier in Colonial Malaya in K. S. Maniam’s Fiction

Chapter 9 In Search of Identity: Gender and Ethnicity in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories

Chapter 10 The Education of the Diasporic Chinese Subject in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Among the White Moon Faces and Tash Aw’s The Face

Chapter 11 Rehman Rashid’s Malaysian Journey: Ethnic Identity and Nationalism in Malaysia

Chapter 12 Matrilineal Legacies: Family, Diaspora, and Memories in Rani Manicka’s The Rice Mother

Chapter 13 Sincerity and Authenticity in the Poems of Bernice Chauly

Chapter 14 “Departures, Deaths, Arrivals”: Homing in Hi(s)tories in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening is the Whole Day