Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Zeng Zhaocheng
Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Zeng Zhaocheng Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. The institutions of modern…
Specifikacia Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Zeng Zhaocheng
Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Zeng Zhaocheng
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote.
However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature's distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors' grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for-rather than a barrier to-aesthetic inventiveness. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. He foregrounds the historical links between Malaysia and other Chinese-speaking