The Weight of Our Sky
The Weight of Our Sky

Author: Hanna Alkaf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1534426094

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Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

Reclaiming Adat
Reclaiming Adat

Author: Gaik Cheng Khoo

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0774841443

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In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an emphasis on sexuality and a return to archaic forms such as magic and traditional healing. Using close textual readings of literature and film, Khoo Gaik Cheng reveals the tensions between gender, modernity, and nation. Khoo weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers. Reclaiming Adat makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of the complexities embedded in modern Malaysian culture, politics, and identity.

Other Malays
Other Malays

Author: Joel S. Kahn

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789971693343

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This simulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, religious reform, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia.

The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020
The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020

Author: Zhui Ning Chang

Publisher: Malaysian Writers Society

Published: 2022-11-24

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9671659950

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The Malaysian Writers Society presents a decade of quality short stories in The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020. A wish for better weather has unexpected consequences. A pianist finds an unlikely audience in her next-door neighbour. A girl attempts Mount Kinabalu only to regret it. Curated by editors Zhui Ning Chang and JY Tan, The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 spans the speculative and realist to thrillers and drama. It explores the bold new directions of contemporary Malaysian writing and hints at the new heights of our future national literature. The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010–2020 includes: Hugo Award winner Zen Cho; 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winner Saras Manickam; Fixi Novo Contest winners Terence Toh and Chua Kok Yee; and USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw.