Beyond the Color Line: Intersectional Considerations in Chuah Guat Eng’s Fiction

• Main Author: Sim, Wai Chew
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: biodiversity; mechanical and organic solidarity (Durkheim); new economic policy; (Malaysia); politics of recognition; postcolonial literature; Southeast Asian writing
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss23/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1576/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n23_2014_5D_202.2_Article_Chew.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay argues that the work of Malaysian-Chinese author Chuah Guat Eng gives pause to the culturalism that dominates literary analysis. Articulated primarily through identity politics (the politics of recognition), culturalism’s self- understanding keeps at a distance other forms of social justi...