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Reading the Malay World

Reading the Malay World

CRNLE Journal special edition

Rick Hosking, Susan Hosking, Noritah Omar, Washima Che Dan

This collection of essays is the culmination of a symposium on the representation of Malays and Malay culture in Singaporean and Malaysian literature in English held in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The symposium, with the theme 'Reading the Malay World through Singaporean and Malaysian Texts in English' brought together experts from the fields of literature, language and linguistics to spotlight the ways in which Malays and Malay culture are captured in the literary imagination of Singaporean and Malaysian writers writing in English. The symposium highlighted how Malays and Malay culture are imagined and promoted through literature, and also explored Malayness from linguistic and cultural perspectives.

Issues of concern addressed here include the construction of the Malays in Singaporean and Malaysian literature in English within orientalist or colonialist discourses of the East, the influence of English on the ways that Malays and Malay culture are represented, how Malay identity is defined, and the positioning of the Malays in literary imaginations and social realities.

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Rick Hosking is an Associate Professor in English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies at Flinders University where he teaches Australian Studies, colonial literary studies, historical fiction and travel writing. He co-authored with Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck Fatal Collisions: the South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory.

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Susan Hosking is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Adelaide. Her particular interests are contemporary Australian fiction, sources of historical fiction and literature that represents interactions between Indigenous and European cultures. She has published on Katharine Susannah Prichard, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Archie Weller, South Australian Indigenous life narratives and literary and cultural representations of life in Australia.

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Noritah Omar is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of English of Universiti Putra Malaysia. Her research interests include Post-colonial theory and literature, and Gender Studies. She is also exploring images of Islam in English literature and in postcolonial literature. She has written articles on the application of feminist theories in literature and culture studies, national identity and Malaysian Literature, and gender and sexuality in Southeast Asian Literature.

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Washima Che Dan is a senior lecturer with the Department of English of Universiti Putra Malaysia where she teaches sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and language in literature. Her research interests are in the interconnections between language, ideology and culture, and in the problematics of language and literature particularly within the contexts of a multilingual nation like Malaysia. She has written on English and Islamic identity, Malayness in Malaysian and Singapore literature, the politics of language and literature, and gender and sexuality in Malaysian literature.

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ISBN   9781862548947
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PAGE COUNT   264
DIMENSIONS   240 x 165 mm