This paper addresses pain and its endurance as portrayed in post-independence Malaysian short stories. After independence in 1957, the diverse races were forced to stay together in a young country that was constantly in turmoil of racial dissatisfactions and prejudice. Every race carried with them racial baggage that clouded efforts of togetherness and nation-building. In 1969 Malaysians bear witness to the bloody May 13 racial riot that took many lives and scarred the nation. The stories from 1966 to 1969 reveal poverty, inter-racial conflicts amongst Malaysians as writers reveal the continuous hardship, social and economic deprivation endured by the lower income Malays. Pain and enduring it is portrayed in terms of instances of conflicts ...
The Japanese occupation dramatically altered Malaya’s prewar pattern of race relations and politics...
The coming of British to Malaya and the opening of rubber plantations, in the late 19th century, pav...
This article discusses the efforts involved in building a nation from the historical perspective. It...
This paper addresses pain and its endurance as portrayed in post-independence Malaysian short storie...
There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out sin...
The issues of the ethnic diversity of the Malaysian way of life, have been explored in scholarship o...
On May 13th 1969, decades of political and ethnic pressures exploded after a contentious general ele...
This dissertation looks at how the newly independent Malaysian state used propaganda as one of the t...
If there is one major qualification to be made for the post in the post-colonial it is that the poli...
The riots of 13 May 1969 are kept alive as social memory in Malaysia. As the government continues to...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.In discussing how identity has been articulated ...
Materialism supersedes humanism in the world of imperialism and colonialism. The powerful suppresses...
In Malaya between 1945-1965, cataclysmic events such as the Sino-Malay racial riots and the fight fo...
In Malaya between 1945-1965, cataclysmic events such as the Sino-Malay racial riots and the fight fo...
Multiculturalism can be understood as a colonial legacy, left by the incursion of the ...
The Japanese occupation dramatically altered Malaya’s prewar pattern of race relations and politics...
The coming of British to Malaya and the opening of rubber plantations, in the late 19th century, pav...
This article discusses the efforts involved in building a nation from the historical perspective. It...
This paper addresses pain and its endurance as portrayed in post-independence Malaysian short storie...
There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out sin...
The issues of the ethnic diversity of the Malaysian way of life, have been explored in scholarship o...
On May 13th 1969, decades of political and ethnic pressures exploded after a contentious general ele...
This dissertation looks at how the newly independent Malaysian state used propaganda as one of the t...
If there is one major qualification to be made for the post in the post-colonial it is that the poli...
The riots of 13 May 1969 are kept alive as social memory in Malaysia. As the government continues to...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.In discussing how identity has been articulated ...
Materialism supersedes humanism in the world of imperialism and colonialism. The powerful suppresses...
In Malaya between 1945-1965, cataclysmic events such as the Sino-Malay racial riots and the fight fo...
In Malaya between 1945-1965, cataclysmic events such as the Sino-Malay racial riots and the fight fo...
Multiculturalism can be understood as a colonial legacy, left by the incursion of the ...
The Japanese occupation dramatically altered Malaya’s prewar pattern of race relations and politics...
The coming of British to Malaya and the opening of rubber plantations, in the late 19th century, pav...
This article discusses the efforts involved in building a nation from the historical perspective. It...