Gender, Identity and Nation into the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia together with Philippines

Editors: Chin, Grace, Mohd Daud, Kathrina (Eds. )

• Includes multidisciplinary ways to the analysis of gender, identity and country in postcolonial Southeast Asian literatureAdds a Southeast Asian viewpoint to your research of sex, identification and country in postcolonial Southeast literature that is asian
• Provides updated scholarship on overlooked regional females authors and their works in English

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This number of essays examines how Southeast Asian ladies writers engage the grand narratives of nationalism while the nation-state that is modern examining the representations of sex, identification and country into the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, while the Philippines. Bringing to light the chosen works of overlooked neighborhood females authors and providing brand new analyses of the made by internationally-known females writers and designers, the essays situate local literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to supply incisive analyses and readings on what ladies additionally the womanly are imagined, represented, and situated in reference to the Southeast Asian nation. The guide, which features both cross-country relative analyses and country-specific investigations, additionally considers the some ideas associated with the country while the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, in addition to ways that they affect women’s figures, subjectivities, and lived realities both in historic and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering exactly how these literary expressions review, contest, or are complicit in nationalist tasks and state-mandated agendas, the collection plays a role in the entire local and relative discourses on sex, identification and country in Southeast Asian studies.

Dr Grace V. S. Chin is a lecturer that is senior the English Language and Literature Studies programme at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

Formerly, she taught English Literature at Universiti Brunei Darussalam additionally the University of Hong Kong. In 2016, she ended up being granted senior fellowship by the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, holland. Her regions of interest are 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 showed up in refereed journals like the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, World Englishes, Intersections: Gender and sex in Asia additionally the Pacific, therefore the Journal of Overseas Women’s Studies, along with publications posted by Springer, John Benjamins and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Dr Kathrina Mohd Daud is a lecturer when you look at the English Studies programme at the Faculty of Arts and personal Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, with an appointment that is joint the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies additionally the Institute of Asian Studies. She’s got been A us state dept. Scholar in 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 concentrate on Bruneian literature.