This book explores the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. It introduces “ideological stylistics,” a linguistic approach to revealing themes of race, identity, and belonging in these literary traditions.
Ganakumaran Subramaniam
Ganakumaran Subramaniam is Deputy Director of the Office of International Relations, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and senior lecturer at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He has a Ph.D from the University of Nottingham, UK and is the recipient of the Fulbright Award in the year 2002. His publications include the books Teaching of Literature in the ESL/EFL Contexts (2003), Reclaiming Place and Space: Issues in New Literatures (2003), Voices of Many Worlds: Malaysian Literature in English (2004), Oracy in Focus (2005), Literature and Nationhood (2005) and Reconstructing Realities: Occident-Orient Engagements (Longman Pearson 2007). He is also President of the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)