Stock ID #140058 Different Voices The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel. ROSALY PUTHUCHEARY.

Different Voices
The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel

Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009. Stock ID #140058

xvi + 317pp, bibliography, index. Very good hardback copy.

"Different Voices: The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel" focuses on the challenges that face a novelist in the literary representation of a multilingual environment. The early writers used strategies like vernacular transcription and mimetic translation. However, the close readings of twelve selected novels by non-European writers from 1980 to 2001 indicate the increasing use of strategies like lexical borrowings, code mixing, code switching and varieties of Singapore-Malayan English instead. Puthucheary asserts in her book that the methods of language appropriation have a direct connection to how the writer conveys the multilingual nature of the Singapore-Malayan society through the speaking person while developing the central theme of the novel. The book maps out the verbal artistic representation of the speaking person and the correlation between speech and character in a multilingual environment.

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