Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Biographic Data
| ID | 110153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharmani Patricia Gabriel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharmani Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gabriel |
| SIGNATURE | GABRIEL S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5777-9228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nanyang as a Pluriverse
The emergence of a cohort of Malaysia-born writers producing works in English from metropolitan centres in the West alongside a growing body of Mahua (or Malaysian Chinese) literature, whose practitioners are ethnic Chinese based primarily in Taiwan and writing in Chinese, constitutes two principal trajectories in contemporary Malaysian literature. Yet, comparative discussions between Anglophone and Sinophone Malaysian literatures remain scarce. …
The Life in the Writing
Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film
Zhang Yimou, one of the most successful of Chinese auteur directors, has been criticized for his Orientalist tendencies, specifically for the exotic atmosphere that turns his films into Oriental spectacles for Western consumption. Yet criticizing Zhang for his supposedly self-Orientalist tendencies, I would suggest, is inappropriate in the context of the Fifth Generation films of the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that, since for the Chinese themselves…
Racialisation in Malaysia
This article focuses on racialisation as a signifying practice and cultural process that attributes difference in Malaysia. It attempts to think with and against the concept of racialisation with an aim to add to a clearer understanding of the cultural politics of ‘race’. It focuses on the hierarchies of power and marginalisation, visibility and invisibility, inclusion and exclusion that are built into dominant discourses and modes of knowledge p…
A second Troy!' Nostos and the poetics of delirium and violence in Derek Walcott's Odyssey
Drawing principally from Édouard Glissant’s conceptions of detour and délire verbal (verbal delirium) and Frantz Fanon’s notion of the physical and psychological salience of violence, this article explores Odysseus’ nostos, or homecoming, in Derek Walcott’s re-envisioning of the Greek epic poem in The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1993). It examines the alienation experienced by Odysseus on his return to his homeland and the nature of his attempts to…
The Ethical Project of Cultural Translation
on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC 2019) convened by the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. It engages with the conference theme of globalisation and cultural change by reflecting on translation as an ethical project. It argues that the problematic of postcolonial translation is also a significant site to address issues of social justice and the unequal power relations between linguistic and cultu…
Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age
Obituary
Obituary
How Chinese are you
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia, written by Abu Talib Ahmad
Local” and “national” transformations
Much of early critical attention on cultural globalization has centred around the emphasis on homogenization. In recent decades, however, postcolonial scholars have tended to focus on the idea of heterogenization, suggesting that this has perhaps been the major outcome of cultural globalization. For them, globalization has opened a space for the periphery to have a voice, with the authority of the centre subject to question from the margins. Offe…
The meaning of race in Malaysia
New transitions – and tensions – in Malaysian society have created a much-needed space for critical reflection on the meaning of race. They have also provided the impetus to rethink the dominant paradigm shaping Malaysian studies. This article begins this discussion by situating race within three frameworks that give it meaning – state, academic and people-centred discourse from the nation's cultural margins. These discourses are then viewed in t…
After the break
Focusing on ethnic Chinese as cultural citizens of the nation, this paper examines national identity in the context of generational change. In so doing, it connects to colonialist conceptions of identity the dominant framework of ethnicity that operates in Malaysia. It argues that this framework allows for the nationalist imagining of 'Malaysian-Chinese' as 'outsiders'. In probing the complex conceptual relationship between ethnicity, national id…
Introduction
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're born’
The concept of diaspora enjoys a significant currency in contemporary cultural theory. Its descriptive paradigm associates it with the shared experience of displacement, a sense of common origins, and a material or symbolic attachment to the ‘original’ homeland. This traditional framework overlooks diaspora as a narrative of national desire that enables contestation and disruption of dominant hierarchies and ideologies of nation from within the t…
Migrations of Chineseness’
Ien Ang was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25–29 September 2009 as a guest of the University of Malaya’s Research Cluster on Social and Behavioural Science. In Kuala Lumpur, she had a packed schedu
Diasporic Translocation and "The Multicultural Question" in Malaysia
Contrary to perspectives stressing diaspora as a discourse of exile and loss, this essay foregrounds the "national" tendencies and affiliations of diasporic communities. Focusing on the Southeast Asian nation-state of Malaysia, it examines the literary productions of K.S. Maniam to show how they disrupt hegemonic notions about diaspora and emphasize the transformative capacity and national consciousness of diasporic communities
Nation and Contestation in Malaysia
In Malaysia, the influence of the hegemonic or ‘authority-defined’ discourse on nation appears so pervasive that it obscures the fact that ‘national’ and ‘ethnic’ identities are in fact highly contested concepts or categories. There is a need, therefore, to examine alternative constructions of ethnic and national identity where dominant notions are challenged, reconstituted and problematized. In keeping with recent developments in critical and li…
The heteroglossia of home
Linking Bakhtin’s views on the othernesses present within a given linguistic and cultural system with Bhabha’s ideas about the ambivalence of national identities, this paper will attempt a reading of The Shadow Lines to examine the ways in which the novel offers a critique of hegemonic constructions of otherness and difference in formulations of “the national” in the subcontinent. In particular, the article aims to demonstrate that it is Ghosh’s …
Immigrant” or “Post-colonial”? Towards a Poetics for Reading the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter
The meaning of race in Malaysia
New transitions – and tensions – in Malaysian society have created a much-needed space for critical reflection on the meaning of race. They have also provided the impetus to rethink the dominant paradigm shaping Malaysian studies. This article begins this discussion by situating race within three frameworks that give it meaning – state, academic and people-centred discourse from the nation's cultural margins. These discourses are then viewed in t…
After the break
Focusing on ethnic Chinese as cultural citizens of the nation, this paper examines national identity in the context of generational change. In so doing, it connects to colonialist conceptions of identity the dominant framework of ethnicity that operates in Malaysia. It argues that this framework allows for the nationalist imagining of 'Malaysian-Chinese' as 'outsiders'. In probing the complex conceptual relationship between ethnicity, national id…
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're born’
The concept of diaspora enjoys a significant currency in contemporary cultural theory. Its descriptive paradigm associates it with the shared experience of displacement, a sense of common origins, and a material or symbolic attachment to the ‘original’ homeland. This traditional framework overlooks diaspora as a narrative of national desire that enables contestation and disruption of dominant hierarchies and ideologies of nation from within the t…
Local” and “national” transformations
Much of early critical attention on cultural globalization has centred around the emphasis on homogenization. In recent decades, however, postcolonial scholars have tended to focus on the idea of heterogenization, suggesting that this has perhaps been the major outcome of cultural globalization. For them, globalization has opened a space for the periphery to have a voice, with the authority of the centre subject to question from the margins. Offe…
Racialisation in Malaysia
This article focuses on racialisation as a signifying practice and cultural process that attributes difference in Malaysia. It attempts to think with and against the concept of racialisation with an aim to add to a clearer understanding of the cultural politics of ‘race’. It focuses on the hierarchies of power and marginalisation, visibility and invisibility, inclusion and exclusion that are built into dominant discourses and modes of knowledge p…
Migrations of Chineseness’
Ien Ang was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25–29 September 2009 as a guest of the University of Malaya’s Research Cluster on Social and Behavioural Science. In Kuala Lumpur, she had a packed schedu
Immigrant” or “Post-colonial”? Towards a Poetics for Reading the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter
Obituary
Introduction
The heteroglossia of home
Linking Bakhtin’s views on the othernesses present within a given linguistic and cultural system with Bhabha’s ideas about the ambivalence of national identities, this paper will attempt a reading of The Shadow Lines to examine the ways in which the novel offers a critique of hegemonic constructions of otherness and difference in formulations of “the national” in the subcontinent. In particular, the article aims to demonstrate that it is Ghosh’s …
Immigrant” or “Post-colonial”? Towards a Poetics for Reading the Nation in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter
Nation and Contestation in Malaysia
In Malaysia, the influence of the hegemonic or ‘authority-defined’ discourse on nation appears so pervasive that it obscures the fact that ‘national’ and ‘ethnic’ identities are in fact highly contested concepts or categories. There is a need, therefore, to examine alternative constructions of ethnic and national identity where dominant notions are challenged, reconstituted and problematized. In keeping with recent developments in critical and li…
The heteroglossia of home
Linking Bakhtin’s views on the othernesses present within a given linguistic and cultural system with Bhabha’s ideas about the ambivalence of national identities, this paper will attempt a reading of The Shadow Lines to examine the ways in which the novel offers a critique of hegemonic constructions of otherness and difference in formulations of “the national” in the subcontinent. In particular, the article aims to demonstrate that it is Ghosh’s …
It ain't where you're from, it's where you're born’
The concept of diaspora enjoys a significant currency in contemporary cultural theory. Its descriptive paradigm associates it with the shared experience of displacement, a sense of common origins, and a material or symbolic attachment to the ‘original’ homeland. This traditional framework overlooks diaspora as a narrative of national desire that enables contestation and disruption of dominant hierarchies and ideologies of nation from within the t…
Migrations of Chineseness’
Ien Ang was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 25–29 September 2009 as a guest of the University of Malaya’s Research Cluster on Social and Behavioural Science. In Kuala Lumpur, she had a packed schedu
Diasporic Translocation and "The Multicultural Question" in Malaysia
Contrary to perspectives stressing diaspora as a discourse of exile and loss, this essay foregrounds the "national" tendencies and affiliations of diasporic communities. Focusing on the Southeast Asian nation-state of Malaysia, it examines the literary productions of K.S. Maniam to show how they disrupt hegemonic notions about diaspora and emphasize the transformative capacity and national consciousness of diasporic communities
Introduction
After the break
Focusing on ethnic Chinese as cultural citizens of the nation, this paper examines national identity in the context of generational change. In so doing, it connects to colonialist conceptions of identity the dominant framework of ethnicity that operates in Malaysia. It argues that this framework allows for the nationalist imagining of 'Malaysian-Chinese' as 'outsiders'. In probing the complex conceptual relationship between ethnicity, national id…
Local” and “national” transformations
Much of early critical attention on cultural globalization has centred around the emphasis on homogenization. In recent decades, however, postcolonial scholars have tended to focus on the idea of heterogenization, suggesting that this has perhaps been the major outcome of cultural globalization. For them, globalization has opened a space for the periphery to have a voice, with the authority of the centre subject to question from the margins. Offe…
The meaning of race in Malaysia
New transitions – and tensions – in Malaysian society have created a much-needed space for critical reflection on the meaning of race. They have also provided the impetus to rethink the dominant paradigm shaping Malaysian studies. This article begins this discussion by situating race within three frameworks that give it meaning – state, academic and people-centred discourse from the nation's cultural margins. These discourses are then viewed in t…
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia, written by Abu Talib Ahmad
Obituary
How Chinese are you
The Ethical Project of Cultural Translation
on Linguistics, Literature and Culture (ICLLIC 2019) convened by the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. It engages with the conference theme of globalisation and cultural change by reflecting on translation as an ethical project. It argues that the problematic of postcolonial translation is also a significant site to address issues of social justice and the unequal power relations between linguistic and cultu…
Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age
Obituary
Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film
Zhang Yimou, one of the most successful of Chinese auteur directors, has been criticized for his Orientalist tendencies, specifically for the exotic atmosphere that turns his films into Oriental spectacles for Western consumption. Yet criticizing Zhang for his supposedly self-Orientalist tendencies, I would suggest, is inappropriate in the context of the Fifth Generation films of the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that, since for the Chinese themselves…
Racialisation in Malaysia
This article focuses on racialisation as a signifying practice and cultural process that attributes difference in Malaysia. It attempts to think with and against the concept of racialisation with an aim to add to a clearer understanding of the cultural politics of ‘race’. It focuses on the hierarchies of power and marginalisation, visibility and invisibility, inclusion and exclusion that are built into dominant discourses and modes of knowledge p…
A second Troy!' Nostos and the poetics of delirium and violence in Derek Walcott's Odyssey
Drawing principally from Édouard Glissant’s conceptions of detour and délire verbal (verbal delirium) and Frantz Fanon’s notion of the physical and psychological salience of violence, this article explores Odysseus’ nostos, or homecoming, in Derek Walcott’s re-envisioning of the Greek epic poem in The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1993). It examines the alienation experienced by Odysseus on his return to his homeland and the nature of his attempts to…
The Life in the Writing
The Nanyang as a Pluriverse
The emergence of a cohort of Malaysia-born writers producing works in English from metropolitan centres in the West alongside a growing body of Mahua (or Malaysian Chinese) literature, whose practitioners are ethnic Chinese based primarily in Taiwan and writing in Chinese, constitutes two principal trajectories in contemporary Malaysian literature. Yet, comparative discussions between Anglophone and Sinophone Malaysian literatures remain scarce. …
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