Rerouting the worlding of inter-ethnic estrangement through critical solace: Shivani Sivagurunathan’s Yalpanam

• Main Authors: Shanthini Pillai,, Jeslyn Sharnita Amarasekera,, Wong, Angeline Wei Wei
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22742/1/TT%2018.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22742/; https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1618

Notes of estrangement and exile, flight and peregrination are themes that are often closely threaded into the narratives of contemporary Malaysian novelists. This is especially so for those writers who live abroad but are continually drawn back across the sea of memory to draw on key episodes that h...