Engaging Malaysia: Greening Postcolonial Memories in The Garden of Evening Mists

IF 0.3 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES
Hamoud Yahya Ahmed Mohsen, Raihanah Mohd Mydin, Wan Mazlini Othamn
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Abstract

The Garden of Evening Mists is a symbolically charged historical narrative about the ramifications of Japanese colonisation in Malaya in the 1940s. A prominent metaphor in this novel is ‘the garden’ in memorium of the protagonist’s deceased sister. This article explores the greening of postcolonial memories of the Japanese colonisation of Malaya in the novel and its deep engagement of Malaysian framed within the social, political and historical contexts. Using postcolonial ecocriticism as a reading lens, the analysis is carried out to be emblematically functional across the limitations of space and time in the country’s colonial history. The analysis displays that the author, Tan Twan Eng, through his authorial-defined social reality, re-enacts numerous snapshots from the Malaysia ecosystem in order to achieve a coherent engagement of Malaysia pre, during and post Japanese occupation. The finding also reveals that while Tan’s narrative provides us with some insights into the ways in which the Malaysians navigate various colonial and postcolonial consequences, it should also be recognized that the ecology of the land adds to the narrative. Through the intersection of the Malaysian landscape and the country’s historical context, the current article reveal how postcolonial ecocriticism is instrumental in understanding the literary canon of Malaysia.
参与马来西亚:在晚雾花园绿化后殖民记忆
《夜雾花园》是一部充满象征意义的历史叙事,讲述了20世纪40年代日本在马来亚殖民统治的后果。小说中一个突出的隐喻是纪念主人公已故妹妹的“花园”。本文探讨了小说中日本殖民马来亚后殖民记忆的绿化,以及在社会、政治和历史背景下对马来西亚人的深刻参与。利用后殖民生态批评作为阅读镜头,分析在国家殖民历史的空间和时间限制中具有象征性的功能。分析表明,作者Tan Twan Eng通过其作者定义的社会现实,重新演绎了马来西亚生态系统的许多快照,以实现马来西亚在日本占领之前,期间和之后的连贯参与。这一发现还表明,虽然Tan的叙述为我们提供了一些关于马来西亚人应对各种殖民和后殖民后果的方式的见解,但我们也应该认识到,土地的生态也增加了叙述。通过马来西亚景观和国家历史背景的交集,本文揭示了后殖民生态批评如何有助于理解马来西亚的文学经典。
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Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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