The tension between the use of postcolonial memory to bear witness to the past and the
aestheticization of memory lies at the center of Malaysian-born writer Tan Twan Eng's …

In addressing contemporary developments in theoretical postcolonial studies in tandem with
analyses of two twenty-first century postcolonial novels, Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain and …

Malaysian supernatural and fantasy fiction typically belong to culture-specific mythologies
that stay within the limits and boundaries of race and ethnicity. Zen Cho's collection of …

Nations are built by narrating their past. Threads of common memories weave the fabric of
the national culture, integrating the heterogenous communities into the idea of a single …

In the societies forged at the anvil of colonial violence, the stories of the past are a contested
territory. For postcolonial writers, literature offers a space to explore the trauma that marks …

In this article, two contemporary writers, Jason Eng Hun Lee and Sreedhevi Iyer, combine to
reflect on emerging issues in their writing practice as deterritorialized writers with …

Much of early critical attention on cultural globalization has centred around the emphasis on
homogenization. In recent decades, however, postcolonial scholars have tended to focus on …

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no
society, no future.(Elie Wiesel) The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation …

Drawing on the postcolonial discourse of reconciliation, this article critically examines The
Gift of Rain (2007) by Malaysian Chinese writer Tan Twan Eng. It attends to the reparative …

This essay explores what it means to theorize Han racism in Malaysian contexts, where
ethnic Chinese constitute a minority. Given the history of Malay political dominance and …