Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Nature in Contemporary Malaysian Life-writings in English
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'This article investigates the representation of nature in contemporary Malaysian life-writings in English by female writers of Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic origins. Adibah Amin’s This End of the Rainbow, Christine Ramsay’s Days Gone By and Muthammal Palanisamy’s From Shore to Shore are analysed by contextualizing the use of nature as an element in narrative strategy that indicates a sense of textual commonality. Through an examination of the agency and subjectivity of each protagonist, this article argues that nature is used to forward a homogenizing identity in the Malay nationalist life-writing, and to trace and validate diasporic roots in the Chinese and Indian texts. Despite the nationalist and diasporic attributes of the three texts, which are grounded on the writers’ ethnic differences, the use of nature indicates a common concern and promising future for the development of Malaysian Literature in English.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Focus : Eco-fictions : Emergent Discourses and Nature and the Environment in Postcolonial Literature vol. 55 no. 2 2019 16840897 2019 periodical issue

    'Instead of looking at the past by viewing the remains of ancient settlements or by inspecting inscriptions left in caves by early humans, future generations will gather information about current times by the imprint that neo-liberal capitalism is leaving on everything. Plastic bottles, chewing gum, electronic components and even medical waste will provide them with a portrait of the Anthropocene, the age shaped by the climate changes we have caused and now inhabit.' (María Alonso Alonso & María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira, Editorial introduction)

    2019
    pg. 169-181
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