By Brian C. Bernards
Postcolonial literature concerning the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the heritage of chinese language migration, localization, and interethnic trade in Southeast Asia, the place Sinophone settler cultures advanced independently by means of adapting to their "New global" and mingling with local cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, ignored by way of such a lot literary histories, might be thought of the most important to the nationwide literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
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For example, Jialing’s father harbors long-standing resentments over the British construction of a military post on the grounds of the holy Shwedagon Pagoda in 1852. This outrage morally justifies his irate opposition to his son’s desire to attend an Anglophone school established by Christian missionaries. ”21 Through the colonial Burmese setting (rather than the imperial centers of Japan or the West) and Burmese characters (non-Chinese subjectivities), Xu Dishan’s discrepant overseas route of “enlightenment” challenges the “obsession with China” that permeates the origins of a Chinese literary modernity constituted from a China-West-Japan global paradigm.
By satirizing episodes of incomplete cultural assimilation and religious conversion, these short stories make the Sinophone itself a “blasphemous” marker of a transgressive creolization that desecrates both the official boundaries of Malaysian multiculturalism and the presumed insurmountability of one’s Chineseness. Chapter 4 examines how the transnational context for imagining the Nanyang also inspires an “ecopoetic” mode of Sinophone modernism by authors whose narratives imaginatively return to Malaysia’s marginalized island frontier, the Borneo rainforest.
Intervening in the continental projection of the nation as a “fortress and landmass” safeguarding internal homogeneity, the archipelagic consciousness imagines national “oneness” as a “fluid and open” network of “change and exchange” between lands connected (rather than isolated) by seas. 28 Postcolonial authors not only reenergize the archipelagic imagination of the national culture but also revive transcultural affinities that cross and transgress the boundaries imposed by colonial and national regimes in their regions.