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https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/1.12.lc.7

Locating Diasporic Interspaces of Local Modernities: Malaysian Migrant Poetry Competition and Voices of the Displaced

Sanghamitra Dalal ; MARA University of Technology, Malaysia

Sažetak

In this paper, I will refer to the Malaysian Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Competition and the subsequent collection of the selected entries entitled Voices of the Displaced. I will contend that this opportunity of showcasing the literary and cultural agency of traditionally peripheral migration in Malaysia is effectively instrumental in generating an alternative perspective in addressing the existing discourse of migration and diaspora. Therefore, I will propose that the notion of “local modernities,” as professed by Bill Ashcroft, is an appropriate articulation in order to locate this contemporary cultural contingency. Consequently, I will attempt to argue that the emerging diasporic interspaces of local modernities in Malaysia are capable of not only creating shifting spaces and practices where participatory negotiation of sameness and difference can be sustained, but also of initiating a polylogue that represents the distinctive divergences.

Ključne riječi

migration, diaspora, local modernities, Malaysia, migrant worker, refugee, migrant poetry competition, Voices of the Displaced

Hrčak ID:

267765

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/267765

Datum izdavanja:

15.12.2021.

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