Gender, Identity and Nation into the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia plus the Philippines
Editors: Chin, Grace, Mohd Daud, Kathrina (Eds. )
- Includes multidisciplinary ways to the analysis of sex, identification and country in postcolonial Southeast Asian literatureAdds a Southeast Asian viewpoint to your research of sex, identification and country in postcolonial Southeast Asian literary works
- Provides updated scholarship on overlooked neighborhood females authors and their works in English
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This number of essays examines exactly how Southeast Asian women article writers engage the grand narratives of nationalism therefore the contemporary nation-state by examining the representations of sex, identification and country within the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, plus the Philippines. Bringing to light the chosen works of overlooked regional ladies authors and supplying brand new analyses of these generated by internationally-known females authors and music artists, the essays situate local literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to provide incisive analyses and readings how ladies while the womanly are imagined, represented, and situated in regards to the Southeast nation. The that is asian, which features both cross-country relative analyses and country-specific investigations, additionally considers the some ideas for the nation while the state by investigating associated ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, together with ways that they affect women’s figures, subjectivities, and lived realities both in historic and modern Southeast Asian contexts. The collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies by considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas.
Dr Grace V. S. Chin is really a senior lecturer in the English Language and Literature Studies programme at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.
Formerly, she taught English Literature at Universiti Brunei Darussalam as well as the University of Hong Kong. The Netherlands in 2016, she was awarded senior fellowship by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. Her regions of interest range from the literatures of postcolonial Southeast Asia and Asian women’s writings, with give attention to race and gender in modern communities and diasporas. Her articles have actually showed up in refereed journals for instance the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, World Englishes, Intersections: Gender and sex in Asia in addition to Pacific, therefore the Journal of Overseas Women’s Studies, along with in publications posted by Springer, John Benjamins and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Dr Kathrina Mohd Daud is a lecturer within the English Studies programme at the Faculty of Arts and personal Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, having an appointment that is joint the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies therefore the Institute of Asian Studies. She’s been A united states state dept. Scholar during the University of Louisville, Kentucky (2012), an extensive research other during the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2013), and a Visiting Fellow at the Southeast Asian Centre during the University of Washington (2014). She works during the intersections of Islam in literary works, popular fiction and Asian literature, with a specific consider Bruneian literature.
