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The year 2021 was a banner year for scholarship on Anglophone Malaysian literature, as it saw the publication of Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism together with a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (volume 57, issue 5) edited by Grace V. S. Chin and Mohammad A. Quayum on the topic of “New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English”. Readers are encouraged to see both publications as paired and complementary texts: while Reading Malaysian Literature in English offers those who have scant knowledge of this literary corpus a comprehensive overview of some important authors, works, and recurring topics in post-independence Malaysian writing, the special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (true to its topic) contains essays discussing more newer or emerging authors and genres such as comics and science/speculative fiction.
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