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d. Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Encyclopaedia Entries

(I am the Sole author of all the items listed below) 

2008

“Interrogating Malaysian Literature in English: Its Glories, Sorrows and Thematic Trends.” Kunapipi (Australia) 30.1 (2008): 149-69

“Lloyd Fernando: A Tribute.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 2.1 (June 2008): 1-9 (URL: http://asiatic.iium.edu.my)

“Introduction.” Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum, eds. Writing a Nation: Essays on Malaysian Literature. IIUM Press, 2008: 1-8

2007

“A Herald of Religious Unity: Rabindranath Tagore’s Literary Representation of Muslims.” South Asian Review (USA) 27.2 (2007). (Forthcoming)

“Self-Refashioning a Plural Society: Dialogism and Syncretism in Malaysian Post-colonial Literature.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 9.2 (December, 2007): 27-46

“’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.” Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (USA) 18.2 (Spring 2007): 62-86

“Between Worlds: Charting the Singapore National Identity in Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid.”  Sun Yet-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 23 (Winter 2006): 1-14

“A ‘Centre’ at the Margin: An Account of Malaysian Literature in English from (the) In/Out/Side. Edwin Thumboo ed. Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes. Singapore: Ethos Books, 300-317

“Introduction.” Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Chuah Guat Eng: The Old House and Other Stories. Kuala Lumpur: Holograms, 2007

“A Malaysian Pathfinder: The Life and Works of Lloyd Fernando.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 2.1 (2007): 5-7

“Muhammad Haji Salleh.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopaedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3242&sType=variantspellings

“Introduction.” Mohammad A. Quayum, ed. Peninsular Muse: Interviews with Modern Malaysian and Singaporean Poets, Novelists and Dramatists. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007: i-xxvii

“Editorial.” Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 1.1 (2007): 1-3.

2006

“Imagining ‘One World’: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Nationalism.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (USA) 7.2 (2006): 20-40  

“On a Journey Homeward: An Interview with Muhammad Haji Salleh.” Postcolonial Text (Canada) 2.4 (2006). http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct

“Keeper of the Creative Flame: An Interview with Suchen Christine Lim.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 41.3 (2006): 148-58

“With Her Glittering Eye: An Interview with Catherine Lim.” Wasafiri (UK) 21.3 (2006): 21-26

“Kee Thuan Chye.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

http://www.litencyc.com/php/printer_format_people.php?UID=2455

“Why Literature Matters: The Malaysian Context.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 1.2 (2006): 6-8

“The Rebel’s Religiosity: Kazi Nazrul Islam and Islam.” Kulliyyah Research Bulletin 1.3 (2006): 3-6 

2005

“Empire and Nation: Political Ideas in Rabindranath Tagore’s Travel Writings.” South Asian Review (USA) 26.2: 41-60

“Confessions of a Liminal Writer: An Interview with Kee Thuan Chye.” Kunapipi (Australia) XXVI.2: 130-139 

“Kaiser Haq.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopaedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.          

       http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1974

 “Soulful Cerebrations: Rabindranath Tagore’s Critique of Empire and Nation in His Peripatetic Writings.” CIEFL Bulletin (India) 14.1: 31-54 

“Wong Phui Nam.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4788  

“Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghare Baire [The Home and the World].” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company. http://litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16758 

“Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Vision of Non-national Neo-universalism.” Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing. Vol. 1 (March 2005).

http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/humanities/exchange/quodlibet/vol1/qv1_mq_tagore.html.

(Also published in Visvabharati Quarterly (India) 11.3 & 4: 33-47) 

“Playwright with a Plural Consciousness: Kuo Pao Kun’s Images at the Margins.” Quodlibet: The Australian Journal of Trans-national Writing. Vol. 1 (March 2005).

http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/humanities/exchange/quodlibet/vol1/qv1_mq_kun.html 

“A Malaysian Existentialist Story: Lee Kok Liang’s London Does Not Belong to Me.” World Literature Written in English (UK): 40.2: 136-140 

“Bumiputra.” Prem Kumar Poddar and David Johnson, eds. A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures. Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, 2005: 88-89 

2004

“Rabindranath Tagore.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4307 

“Lloyd Fernando.” Robert Clark, Emory Elliott and Janet Todd, eds. The Literary Encyclopedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company.

http://litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1510 

“Rabindranath Tagore and Nationalism.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 39.2 (2004): 1-6 

“Mapping a ‘Naked’ Psyche: An Interview with Wong Phui Nam.” New Literatures Review (Australia) 41: 141-160  

“Traversing Borders, Negotiating Identity: Portrayal of the Malaysian-Indian Diaspora in K.S. Maniam’s The Return.” Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking, eds. The Regenerative Spirit. Adelaide, Australia: Lythrum Press, 2004 

“Imagining ‘Bangsa Malaysia’: Race, Religion and Gender in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” Nena Bierbaum, Syd Harrex and Sue Hosking, eds. The Regenerative Spirit.  Adelaide, Australia: Lythrum Press, 2004 

2003

“Malaysian Literature in English: A Bibliography of Primary Works.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (UK) 38.2 (2003): 162-175 

“Shirley Geok-lin Lim: An Interview.” The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) (USA) 28.4 (2003): 83-100. [Also published in Sun Yet-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 16 (2003): 1-14] 

“Malaysian Literature in English: An Evolving Tradition.” Kunapipi (Australia) 25.2 (2003): 178-195

 “Nation, Gender, Identity: Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold.” Sun Yet-sen Journal of Humanities (Taiwan) 16 (2003): 15-32 

“Paradisiacal Imagination: Rabindranath Tagore’s Visvovod or Vision Non-national Neo-universalism.” Literature and Criticism (India) 3.1 (2003): 22-43 

“Introduction.” Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2003: vi-x 

“An Overview of Malaysian Literature in English.”  Petals of Hibiscus: A Representative Anthology of Malaysian Literature in English. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2003: ix-xxviii

2002

“Writer as Reformer: Interview with Robert Yeo.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: 308-314 

“Postnationalism and Hybridity in Robert Yeo’s The Singapore Trilogy.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: 330-344 

“Nestled Dreams: An Interview with Kirpal Singh.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: 402-411 

“A Two-headed Demon.” Rev. of Suchen Christine Lim’s A Bit of Earth. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: 417-419

 “A New Voice in Singapore Literature: Interview with Lau Siew Mei.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: 443-446 

“Introduction.” Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 2002: xi-xiii. (Co-authored with Peter Wicks) 

“Introduction.” The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. India: Penguin Books, 2002: xi-xvi. (Co-authored with Kirpal Singh and Dipika Mukherjee) 

2001

“Malaysian Literature in English: Challenges and Prospects in the New Millennium.” CRNLE Journal (Australia; 2001): 128-140 

“Imagining ‘Bangsa Malaysia’: Race, Religion and Gender in Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” World Literature Written in English (UK) 38.1 (2001): 29-42 

“Shaping a New National Destiny with Dialogic Vision: Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001: 168-173 

“Introduction.” Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks, eds. Kuala Lumpur: Pearson Education, 2001: i-iv. (Co-authored with Peter Wicks)  

2000

“Smouldering in an Inflexible Mould.” Rev. of Chong Sheau Ching’s Stories for My Mother. CRNLE Journal (Australia; 2000): 210-212 

“Introduction.” Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh, eds. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000: vii-xiii 

“Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King as an Allegory for the Fifties.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh, eds. Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. New Delhi, India: B.R. Publishing, 2000: 353-367 

“Adopting Emerson’s Vision of Equilibrium: Citrine and the Two Opposite Poles of Twentieth Century Consciousness in Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift.” Mohammad A. Quayum and Sukhbir Singh, eds. Saul Bellow: The Man and His Work. India: B.R. Publishing, 2000: 409-430 

1999

“In Search of a Spiritual Commonwealth: Tagore’s The Home and the World.” Journal of South Asian Literature (USA) 31. 1-2 & 32. 1-2 (1997; published in 1999): 32-45 

“Introducing a Bangladeshi Writer in English: Interview with Kaiser Haq.” South Asian Review (USA) 20. 1 (1996; published in 1999): 92-99. [Also published in The Gombak Review (Malaysia) 3.1: 21-30]

1998

“Shaping a New National Destiny with Dialogic Vision: Lloyd Fernando’s Green is the Colour.” CRNLE Reviews Journal (Australia) 1-2 (1995; published in 1998): 205-210 

“A Multicultural Mosaic.” Rev. of Robert Yeo, ed. Singapore Short Stories. CRNLE Reviews Journal (Australia) 1-2 (1995; published in 1998): 216-219 

“Introduction.” In Blue Silk Girdle: Stories from Malaysia and Singapore. Ed. Malaysia: University Putra Malaysia Press, 1998: xi-xxi 

1997

“Quest for Equilibrium: Transcendental Ideas in Bellow’s Herzog.” Saul Bellow Journal (USA) 14. 2 (1996; published in 1997): 43-69 

“The Editor.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Shampyadak.” The Gombak Review (Malaysia) 2. 1 (1997): 51-54  

1996

July's People: Gordimer’s Radical Critique of White 'Liberal' Attitude.” English Studies in Africa (South Africa) 39. 1 (1996): 54-71

 “The Professor.” Translation of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Addhyapak.” Journal of South Asian Literature (USA) 29. 2 (1996): 21-40  

1995

“Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King as an Allegory for the Fifties.” American Studies International (USA) 33. 1 (1995): 65-74 

“Transcendentalism and Bellow's Henderson the Rain King.” Studies in American Jewish Literature (USA) 14 (1995): 46-58

1994

“Transcendentalism and Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King.” T.S. Anand, ed. Contemporary American Jewish Novel. Vol. 1. India: ABS Publications, 1994: 56-70 

“Love Liberates, Love Rejuvenates.” Rev. of Basanti Karmakar’s Love in the Throes of Tradition. C.Y. Loh & I.K. Ong, eds. Skoob Pacifica Anthology No. 2: The Pen Is Mightier than the sword. London: Skoob Books Publishing, 1994: 270-274 

1992

“Emerson’s ‘Humboldt’—A Probable Source for Bellow’s Von Humboldt Fleisher in Humboldts Gift. Notes on Contemporary Literature (USA) 22. 4 (1992): 7-8 

“An ‘Arbiter of the Diverse’: Bellow’s Philosophical Affinity with Emerson and Whitman in Henderson the Rain King.’ Saul Bellow Journal (USA) 10. 2 (1992): 42-64 

“Love Liberates, Love Rejuvenates." Rev. of Basanti Karmakar’s Love in the Throes of Tradition.CRNLE Reviews Journal (Australia) 2 (1992): 56-59 

Trans. “Folk Literature.” By Wakil Ahmed. Serajul Islam et al, eds. Social and Cultural History. Vol. I of History of Bangladesh 1704‑1971. 3 Vols. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1992: 586-658  

1991

“In the Footsteps of an Ancient Tradition.” Rev. of S.P. Mani’s Ram, Ram. CRNLE Reviews Journal (Australia) 1 (1991): 22-26

 “Adopting Emerson’s Vision of Equilibrium: Citrine and the Two Opposite poles of Twentieth Century Consciousness in Humboldts Gift.” Studies in American Jewish Literature (USA) 10. 1 (1991): 8-23 

“Emerson’s ‘Humboldt’ and Bellow’s Von Humboldt Fleisher: A Study of the Decline and Fall of the Modernist Poet in Humboldt's Gift.” Indian Journal of American Studies (India) 10. 1 (1991): 99-105

 “Emerson, Whitman and the Double Consciousness.” The Aligarh Critical Miscellany (India) 4. 2 (1991): 188‑213. [Also published in Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 5.2: 1-22]

 Rev. of Saul Bellow’s A Theft. Bangladesh Journal of American Studies 5. 2 (1991): 188-192  

1989

“Finding the Middle Ground: Bellow’s Philosophical Affinity with Emerson in Mr Sammlers Planet.” Saul Bellow Journal (USA) 8. 2 (1989): 24-38

 

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