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Title: Voices and vision for a shared landscape
Authors: Fadillah Merican
Conference Name: Language And Nationhood : Confronting New Realities : International Conference
Keywords: Malaysian literature
English language -- Literature
Conference Date: 2003-12-16
Conference Location: Putrajaya Marriot Hotel, Malaysia
Abstract: It is common practice to regard Malaysian Literature in English (MLE) as writing of resistance. Its content, the use of the colonizers' language, are seen by different, and sometimes opposed groups, as constituting resistance against the British colonizers, or the metropolitan language center, or new forms of colonialism and hegemony, or against socio-political policies or as undermining governmental efforts at uniting its multicultural peoples and nation building. This paper provides the alternative view of MLE as writing for reconciliation, by Malaysians, for Malaysians. This will be done by focusing on creative fiction by established and new writers from the early 1990s to the present. These works reveal newer elements of content, emphasis, and style from a broader ethnic spread of writers. Those foreground the diversity, sometimes the differences, of our multicultural condition; they expose the realities of complex class identities and social dislocations of modern-day Malaysia. Yet, drawn from the shared history of the land, these stories are statements that interlock to present the realities of the Malaysian landscape and the collective vision of affinity to place and communities at home.
Pages: 90
Call Number: P35.I554 2003 n.1 sem
Publisher: School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Appears in Collections:Seminar Papers/ Proceedings / Kertas Kerja Seminar/ Prosiding

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