Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 5 (2021)

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Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 57, Issue 5 (2021)

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Special Issue: Malaysian Literature in English

Introduction

Introduction
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English
Grace V.S. Chin & Mohammad A. Quayum
Pages: 583-592
Published online: 13 Dec 2021
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China, Malaysia, and millennial diasporic identity in Tash Aw’s The Face and Five Star Billionaire
Walter S.H. Lim
Pages: 593-606
Published online: 20 Sep 2021
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Universalism and the Malaysian anglophone novel: Exploring inequality, migrancy, and class in Tash Aw’s We, the Survivors
Angelia Poon
Pages: 607-620
Published online: 13 Sep 2021
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Transnational re-memorialization in Preeta Samarasan’s Evening Is the Whole Day
Ann Ang
Pages: 621-635
Published online: 14 Sep 2021
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Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho’s Spirits Abroad
Grace V.S. Chin
Pages: 636-649
Published online: 20 Sep 2021
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Hyphenational poetics in Omar Musa’s Parang and Millefiori
Weihsin Gui
Pages: 650-664
Published online: 23 Sep 2021
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On not writing back: Cosmopolitan paradoxes in new diasporic Malaysian writing today
Jason Eng Hun Lee & Sreedhevi Iyer
Pages: 665-679
Published online: 22 Sep 2021
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The ruins of referentiality: Allegorical realism and traumatic fragments in Scorpion Orchid and The Search
Augustine Chay
Pages: 680-693
Published online: 02 Aug 2021
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Diffractive spaces: An analysis of Malaysian cyberpunk
Netty Mattar
Pages: 694-708
Published online: 23 Sep 2021
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Satire and community in the time of COVID-19: An analysis of Ernest Ng’s Covidball Z
Susan Philip
Pages: 709-722
Published online: 06 Oct 2021
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Poetry

The Power of Names; Missing Nyonya Poster
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Pages: 723-724
Published online: 12 Nov 2021
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sand; the dancers
Muhammad Haji Salleh
Pages: 725-726
Published online: 13 Dec 2021
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I Am a Homeland
Omar Musa
Pages: 727-728
Published online: 16 Nov 2021
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The Fall of Melaka
Jason Eng Hun Lee
Pages: 729-730
Published online: 15 Nov 2021
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Book Review

Book Review
Malaysian literature in English: A critical companion
edited by Mohammad A. Quayum, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars, 2020, 290 pp., £64.99 (print), ISBN 978-1-5275-4929-6
Vandana Saxena
Pages: 731-733
Published online: 13 Sep 2021
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