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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 428–437.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in relation to other ethnic minorities. In some cases, we can also observe how Mahua authors employ this counter-discourse structure as a form of resistance against hegemonic state power. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Sinophone Malaysian Literature minority...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., “Allah's Will.” 29 Rojas, “Introduction,” xx . 30 Groppe, Sinophone Malaysian Literature , 92 . 31 Bachner, Beyond Sinology , 140 . 32 “Ala de zhiyi,” 119 ; hereafter cited in the text. 33 The story may be read also as a comment on Ng's own hyphenated identity...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., “Sinophone Malaysian Literature.” 8 See Shih, “Comparison as Relation,” and Doyle, Inter-imperiality , 21 . 9 Jany, “Imperial Crossings,” 38 . Also, in the Kedah Gurun Goh Chou Temple, the five coolies, now deities, are dressed in bourgeois dress. 10 Ghosh, Nutmeg's Curse , 220...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 409–430.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of these linguistic features, I discuss Padi Guli's work by building on the debate of center versus periphery in the taxonomical stance of Sinophone literature examined in essays such as those of Patricia Schiaffini and Kim Tong Tee on Sinophone Tibetan and Malaysian literatures, respectively. 8 The complexity...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... triumphal tone, Malayan communist fiction is instead characterized by its focus on failure, specifically the Malayan Communist Party's ultimate failure to carry out a revolution. In “Counter-discourse: Strategies of Representing Ethnic Minorities in Sinophone Malaysian Literature,” Boon Eng Khor uses...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... To illustrate how digital media help recruit individuals to become agents of cultural remembrance and imagination, consider the following true case. Lee, born in 1996, is a Malaysian woman working in Singapore who likes to wear Hanfu 漢服, a kind of reinvented ethnic clothing inspired by ancient Chinese sartorial...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... literature have employed to illuminate place-based writing practices. 7 In the abutting context of Malaysian Chinese literary studies—where the choice of adopting native or nonnative categories of thought as analytical frames is a long-standing issue—Ng Kim Chew has elaborated on the merits of shifting...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 390–407.
Published: 01 October 2019
... , 2016 . Ng Kim Chew 黃錦樹 . “ Mahua wenxue de guoji: Lun Mahua wenxue yu (guojia) minzuzhuyi ” 馬華文學的國籍：論馬華文學與（國家）民族主義 [The Nationality of Chinese Malaysian Literature: On Its Relation with (State) Ethno-nationalism]. In Huawen xiaowenxue de Malaixiya ge'an 華文小文學的馬來西亞個案 [ Minor Sinophone Literature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... studies of Indonesia and the Philippines can help inspire the field to reassess the typicality of the Malaysian case by studying its literary corpora in greater detail. Importantly, through analyses of scarcely acknowledged aspects of a writer (Stenberg), a forgotten literary tradition (Hoogervorst...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 251–254.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., pan-Asianism, Chinese nationalism, and Sinophone Malaysian identity” (105). In this chapter, the archive figures prominently as a potential repository of clues to the location of the “corpus or corpse” of Yu Dafu, who, after fleeing Singapore for Sumatra, left his home one night in 1945 and never...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... contributions by young authors from various Southeast Asian countries. In 1996, the Malaysian author Meng Sha 孟沙 (the pen name of Lim Meng Sai 林明水, 1941–2020) and Thai author Sima Gong 司馬攻 (the pen name of Kriangchao Durongsang เกรียงเชาว์ ดุรงค์แสง, 1933–) collaborated to compile the Singapore volume...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 367–394.
Published: 01 September 2023
... wordplay constitute an allographic tradition that “emphasizes hybridity and difference at the heart of the sinograph” in the work of writers such as Taiwanese poet Chen Li 陳黎 and Malaysian novelist Ng Kim Chew 黄锦树. 38 Bachner claims that allographic practices reveal the “multiplicity and thus...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., many youth of Chinese descent in the Singapore-Malaysian region had turned to leftism. Publications from communist China were not hard to come by, including revolutionary historical fiction. 18 When making a comparison with the CCP's revolutionary historical fiction, we find an intriguing...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 479–500.
Published: 01 October 2021
... vis-à-vis the main body of Mahua writings was observed by Wang Gungwu 王賡武, who translated his poem “Shi shizi” into English for an anthology of contemporary Malaysian literature published in 1964. Wang acknowledged that Wei Beihua's poem had “some originality” and was not carried away...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 438–453.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Carlos Rojas Abstract This article borrows Juno Salazar Parreñas's concept of the “semi-wild” as an entry point into an analysis of Malaysian Chinese author Zhang Guixing's novels Elephant Herd (1998) and Monkey Cup (2000). Set in Sarawak, both works feature a relatively simple plotline interwoven...
