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

• Main Author: Sim, Wai Chew
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Mechanical and organic solidarity (Durkheim); Biodiversity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81524; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40863; http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk/article/view/KK2014.02303
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay argues that the work of Malaysian-Chinese author Chuah Guat Enggives pause to the culturalism that dominates literary analysis. Articulatedprimarily through identity politics (the politics of recognition), culturalism’s selfunderstandingkeeps at a distance other forms of social justice co...