“We are all exiles” : exile and place in the poetry of Ee Tiang Hong, Wong Phui Nam and Shirley Geok-lin Lim

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Cheng, Boey Kim
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Literature; Malaysian Poetry; Pioneer Generation
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1326; https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141898

Exile is a dominant theme and trope in the poetry of the pioneer generation of Anglophone Malaysian poets Ee Tiang Hong, Wong Phui Nam and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. This essay traces the roots of exile in these three poets, exploring how the sense of displacement from cultural and political Malay hegemo...