Memory and the Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Smarasan's Evening is the Whole Day

• Main Author: Pillai, Shanthini
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: hybridity; imaginary homelands; motherland; transnational memory
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss18/4; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1304/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n18_2012_5D_202.3_Article_Pillai.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The focal point of this paper is the concept of transnational memory and the blurred and fluctuating boundaries of ties with the nation that was once home as depicted in Evening is the Whole Day, a novel by Preeta Samarasan, part of the emergent community of new Malaysian diasporic writers. New Mala...