JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Malaysian Nationalist Novel in English: A Reading of Adibah Amin's This End of the Rainbow.

  • Published In: Studies in the Novel, 2024, v. 56, n. 4. P. 425 1 of 3

  • Database: Sociology Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ganesan, Kavitha 3 of 3

Abstract

In this article I argue that the Anglophone novel can never really be nationalist because, in attempting to homogenize the multi-ethnic characters, the nationalist discourse is perpetually in conflict with the inherent heterogeneity of the very people that it aimed to collectively gather by forwarding the binary of colonizer-colonized. By using Benedict Anderson's "imagined community" as my main contestation point, I investigate through the reading of a Malaysian Anglophone novel, This End of the Rainbow (2006), the pitfalls present in both the "deep" and "horizontal" comradeship expounded by Anderson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Studies in the Novel. 2024/12, Vol. 56, Issue 4, p425
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Biography
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0039-3827
  • DOI:10.1353/sdn.2024.a948005
  • Accession Number:182194501
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