Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)

There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out since the publication of Lloyd Fernando's Twenty-Two Malaysian Short Stories (1968) and MalaysianShort Stories (1981). Some of the early short stories were also published in local journals and magaz...

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Main Author:	Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Daily Star, Bangladesh 2014
Subjects:	PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0080 Criticism PN0441 Literary History
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/38112/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/38112/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/38112/1/Quayum._the_daily_star._1_March.pdf

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spelling	iium-381122018-06-20T06:59:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/38112/ Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7) Quayum, Mohammad Abdul PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0080 Criticism PN0441 Literary History There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out since the publication of Lloyd Fernando's Twenty-Two Malaysian Short Stories (1968) and MalaysianShort Stories (1981). Some of the early short stories were also published in local journals and magazines, such as LIDRA and Tengarra. Many of these stories focus on poverty and destitution in Malaysian society in order to expose its class and caste hierarchy. They also argue that indigence is not a race problem but a class problem; the oppressed and the humiliated are found in all the various ethnic groups in the country. Poverty was acute in Malaysian society in the aftermath of independence because of the Japanese Occupation and the Communist insurgency in the forties and the fifties respectively, which had thrown the country's export economy into disarray, causing, as historians Andaya and Andaya suggest, widespread “unemployment, food shortages, poverty, poor health and general uncertainty.” But poverty still remains a problem in some sectors of the society, in spite of the country's phenomenal economic growth in the last twenty years. This is because of the lack of equitable distribution of wealth among its citizens. The Daily Star, Bangladesh 2014-03-01 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38112/1/Quayum._the_daily_star._1_March.pdf Quayum, Mohammad Abdul (2014) Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7). The Daily Star. http://www.thedailystar.net/print_post/english-in-malaysia-and-singapore-13480
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description	There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out since the publication of Lloyd Fernando's Twenty-Two Malaysian Short Stories (1968) and MalaysianShort Stories (1981). Some of the early short stories were also published in local journals and magazines, such as LIDRA and Tengarra. Many of these stories focus on poverty and destitution in Malaysian society in order to expose its class and caste hierarchy. They also argue that indigence is not a race problem but a class problem; the oppressed and the humiliated are found in all the various ethnic groups in the country. Poverty was acute in Malaysian society in the aftermath of independence because of the Japanese Occupation and the Communist insurgency in the forties and the fifties respectively, which had thrown the country's export economy into disarray, causing, as historians Andaya and Andaya suggest, widespread “unemployment, food shortages, poverty, poor health and general uncertainty.” But poverty still remains a problem in some sectors of the society, in spite of the country's phenomenal economic growth in the last twenty years. This is because of the lack of equitable distribution of wealth among its citizens.
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title	Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)
title_short	Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)
title_full	Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)
title_fullStr	Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)
title_full_unstemmed	Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)
title_sort	literary traditions: english in malaysia and singapore (column 7)
publisher	The Daily Star, Bangladesh
publishDate	2014
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Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 7)

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