Mohammad A. Quayum |
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The extensive range and high quality of the articles in Malaysian Literature in English: A Critical Reader confirm the editors’ claim that critical writing on the Malaysian Anglophone tradition is impressive, given the minor status of English…. As essential reading for any serious student of Malaysian literature in English [this volume, like Colonial to Global: Malaysian Women’s Writing in English 1940s – 90s] will create new audiences for the writers of this tradition. · Dawn Wetherston and Janet Wilson, World Literature Written in English (UK) 38.1: 129-30.
The editors’ introduction is particularly helpful given the complex entanglements between English and the Malaysian nation-state. Although the issues and debates are looked at in depth by several of the essays that follow, the Introduction provides a useful overview of the cultural politics framing the use of English from the 1960s to the present….
A collection like this is necessary to make visible the continued and valid existence of a creative and critical consciousness in English in Malaysia, and to provide an intervention in the nation’s hegemonic cultural and literary traditions. · Sharmini Patricia Gabriel, Ariel (Canada) 33. 3-4: 240-43. |
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