Grace V S Chin
Biographic Data
| ID | 144352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace V S Chin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace V S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chin |
| SIGNATURE | CHIN G V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9292-4494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bruneian Novel in English: Narrative Experiments in an ‘Outer Circle’ Country
The oil‐rich Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam boasts a small but growing English literary scene. Drawing on Kachru's insights into the ‘Outer Circle’ of World Englishes, this essay examines the Bruneian novel in English and its development in two phases: From 2009 to 2019, and from 2020 onwards. Authored by well‐educated Bruneians—also the group most competent in the use of English—in the Sultanate and abroad, the Bruneian novel in English reflects…
Monstrous Woman and the Decolonial Gothic Female Gaze in Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper
Using decolonial Gothic and gender theories, this essay examines Nuraliah Norasid’s novel The Gatekeeper (2017), the first speculative novel to win the Singapore Book Award for Best Fiction. Gatekeeper rewrites the Greek myth of Medusa through its protagonist, Ria, to tackle the complex relationship between Malay femininity and the forces of Singapore’s state-driven modernization and global capitalism that shape how race, gender, and class are co…
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia
Queering history: Palimpsestuous bodies and their stories in Zen Cho's The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
In her fantasy novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020), transnational Malaysian writer Zen Cho agitates and disrupts Malaysia’s heteropatriarchal and ethnocentric history as well as Eurocentric LGBT discourses with the revisionary reinscriptions of gender and sexuality to give voice to decolonial theirstories, particularly those belonging to the minority and subaltern community of queer identities. Emphasising difference and…
Woman becoming… Gender possibilities in selected speculative short stories of Intan Paramaditha and Isabel Yap
The ontological question of woman’s nature forms the focus of this essay, which develops the theory of “woman-becoming...” to examine how the hegemonic patriarchal discourses and constructs of woman and femininity are subverted and reinterpreted in two speculative short stories by transnational Southeast Asian women writers, namely Intan Paramaditha’s “Beauty and the Seventh Dwarf” (2018) and Isabel Yap’s “Good Girls” (2021). Of interest here are…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Engendering Tionghoa nationalism: Female purity in male-authored Sino-Malay novels of colonial Java
The recurring trope of female purity holds an important place in the Sino-Malay literature of colonial Java from the late 1910s to the 1930s, a turbulent and transformative sociopolitical period that also saw the rise of Tionghoa (Chinese) nationalism in the Dutch Indies. Used mainly by male writers who dominated the Sino-Malay literary scene, the gendered trope features polarised femininities — the archetypal virtuous Tionghoa girl, and the West…
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad
Malaysian supernatural and fantasy fiction typically belong to culture-specific mythologies that stay within the limits and boundaries of race and ethnicity. Zen Cho's collection of fantasy short fiction Spirits Abroad, however, defies these limits and boundaries – and indirectly the ethnocentric politics of Malaysia – through representations of interracial and interspecies relationships. Exploring the emotional connections between human and magi…
Malayan Chinese women in a time of war: Gender, narration, and subversion in Han Suyin's And the Rain My Drink
Set in the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), Han Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink (1956) is important for its portrayal of working-class, rural Malayan Chinese women, one of the most oppressed subaltern groups at the time. Tapping into the gendered structures of imperial history that have silenced the voices of women, especially if they belonged to marginalized ethnic groups and/or the lower social class, the novel’s exploration of women’s wartime experi…
Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon
"This collection of essays demonstrates vividly how and why the life and writings of Kartini spark different meanings to different people across different continents and times for a wide range of reasons. Truly engaging and enlightening."—Professor Dr Ariel Heryanto, Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia at Monash University, and author of Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture "An icon of colonial Indonesia an…
Change and Preservation in Language, Literature and Culture in Southeast Asia: Trends and Directions
My Father’s Daughter: Filial Dislocation in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Poetry
Drawing on the father figure and the father–daughter dynamic in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry, this article examines how the motif of filial dislocation underlines ambivalent and complicated emotions and meanings that can be traced back to the poet’s traumatic childhood experience of her father’s violence. This experience, described here as one of acute psychical and emotional rupture and dislocation, has been imprinted onto Lim’s body and consci…
The Malayan Emergency. Essays on a Small, Distant War , by Souchou Yao
The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Between Danger and Pleasure: Rethinking the Imperilled Filipina Migrant Body in Jose Dalisay’s Soledad’s Sister
A research bibliography for Brunei English
This bibliography sets out to provide a guide to research publications dealing with the status, functions and features of English in Brunei. It includes publications related to the sociolinguistic background, the linguistic features of Brunei English, discourse studies, literary studies and creative writing, English language teaching, language policy and planning, and scholarly theses
Bruneian women's writing as an emergent minor literature in English
This article considers how Bruneian women's writings in English constitute an emergent minor literature by analysing the subordinated status of gender and language in the nation space. Based on three key features of minor literature - linguistic deterritorialisation, political identity, and collective agency, I argue that these writings resist the homogenising influences of the state by straddling two major language discourses - the local, nation…
Introduction: English in Brunei Darussalam
This special issue of World Englishes presents new research perspectives on English in Brunei Darussalam, a small oil-rich Islamic monarchy in Southeast Asia. It comprises a number of articles on language in society and on literature, as well as a comprehensive bibliography a comprehensive bibliography listing published studies on English in Brunei Darussalam. Most of the contributors are based in the country, including a number who are Bruneian …
Negotiating difference: The trope of anak derhaka and ideological endings in Bruneian writings
In a quantitative analysis of themes explored in the creative writing classes at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, it was found that over 60 per cent of all writings dealt with the parent–child relationship, with many dealing specifically with the trope of the anak derhaka, or unfilial child. A closer look at the anak derhaka texts showed that their endings almost invariably showcased a formulaic trajectory that punished the unfilial child and restor…
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam: A Comparative Study of Literary Developments in English
This essay maps the development of English language literature in three commonwealth nations in Southeast Asia in the past decade: Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. All three nations have taken different political paths after independence and have separately developed policies on the English language based on localized conditions and on the specific social and political needs of the nation in the postcolonial and globalized context. As a…
Negotiating difference: The trope of anak derhaka and ideological endings in Bruneian writings
In a quantitative analysis of themes explored in the creative writing classes at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, it was found that over 60 per cent of all writings dealt with the parent–child relationship, with many dealing specifically with the trope of the anak derhaka, or unfilial child. A closer look at the anak derhaka texts showed that their endings almost invariably showcased a formulaic trajectory that punished the unfilial child and restor…
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad
Malaysian supernatural and fantasy fiction typically belong to culture-specific mythologies that stay within the limits and boundaries of race and ethnicity. Zen Cho's collection of fantasy short fiction Spirits Abroad, however, defies these limits and boundaries – and indirectly the ethnocentric politics of Malaysia – through representations of interracial and interspecies relationships. Exploring the emotional connections between human and magi…
Between Danger and Pleasure: Rethinking the Imperilled Filipina Migrant Body in Jose Dalisay’s Soledad’s Sister
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam: A Comparative Study of Literary Developments in English
This essay maps the development of English language literature in three commonwealth nations in Southeast Asia in the past decade: Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam. All three nations have taken different political paths after independence and have separately developed policies on the English language based on localized conditions and on the specific social and political needs of the nation in the postcolonial and globalized context. As a…
Negotiating difference: The trope of anak derhaka and ideological endings in Bruneian writings
In a quantitative analysis of themes explored in the creative writing classes at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, it was found that over 60 per cent of all writings dealt with the parent–child relationship, with many dealing specifically with the trope of the anak derhaka, or unfilial child. A closer look at the anak derhaka texts showed that their endings almost invariably showcased a formulaic trajectory that punished the unfilial child and restor…
A research bibliography for Brunei English
This bibliography sets out to provide a guide to research publications dealing with the status, functions and features of English in Brunei. It includes publications related to the sociolinguistic background, the linguistic features of Brunei English, discourse studies, literary studies and creative writing, English language teaching, language policy and planning, and scholarly theses
Bruneian women's writing as an emergent minor literature in English
This article considers how Bruneian women's writings in English constitute an emergent minor literature by analysing the subordinated status of gender and language in the nation space. Based on three key features of minor literature - linguistic deterritorialisation, political identity, and collective agency, I argue that these writings resist the homogenising influences of the state by straddling two major language discourses - the local, nation…
Introduction: English in Brunei Darussalam
This special issue of World Englishes presents new research perspectives on English in Brunei Darussalam, a small oil-rich Islamic monarchy in Southeast Asia. It comprises a number of articles on language in society and on literature, as well as a comprehensive bibliography a comprehensive bibliography listing published studies on English in Brunei Darussalam. Most of the contributors are based in the country, including a number who are Bruneian …
The Malayan Emergency. Essays on a Small, Distant War , by Souchou Yao
The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Between Danger and Pleasure: Rethinking the Imperilled Filipina Migrant Body in Jose Dalisay’s Soledad’s Sister
My Father’s Daughter: Filial Dislocation in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Poetry
Drawing on the father figure and the father–daughter dynamic in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry, this article examines how the motif of filial dislocation underlines ambivalent and complicated emotions and meanings that can be traced back to the poet’s traumatic childhood experience of her father’s violence. This experience, described here as one of acute psychical and emotional rupture and dislocation, has been imprinted onto Lim’s body and consci…
Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon
"This collection of essays demonstrates vividly how and why the life and writings of Kartini spark different meanings to different people across different continents and times for a wide range of reasons. Truly engaging and enlightening."—Professor Dr Ariel Heryanto, Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia at Monash University, and author of Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture "An icon of colonial Indonesia an…
Change and Preservation in Language, Literature and Culture in Southeast Asia: Trends and Directions
Engendering Tionghoa nationalism: Female purity in male-authored Sino-Malay novels of colonial Java
The recurring trope of female purity holds an important place in the Sino-Malay literature of colonial Java from the late 1910s to the 1930s, a turbulent and transformative sociopolitical period that also saw the rise of Tionghoa (Chinese) nationalism in the Dutch Indies. Used mainly by male writers who dominated the Sino-Malay literary scene, the gendered trope features polarised femininities — the archetypal virtuous Tionghoa girl, and the West…
The postcolonial millennium: New directions in Malaysian literature in English
Interracial relations and the post-postcolonial future in Zen Cho's Spirits Abroad
Malaysian supernatural and fantasy fiction typically belong to culture-specific mythologies that stay within the limits and boundaries of race and ethnicity. Zen Cho's collection of fantasy short fiction Spirits Abroad, however, defies these limits and boundaries – and indirectly the ethnocentric politics of Malaysia – through representations of interracial and interspecies relationships. Exploring the emotional connections between human and magi…
Malayan Chinese women in a time of war: Gender, narration, and subversion in Han Suyin's And the Rain My Drink
Set in the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), Han Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink (1956) is important for its portrayal of working-class, rural Malayan Chinese women, one of the most oppressed subaltern groups at the time. Tapping into the gendered structures of imperial history that have silenced the voices of women, especially if they belonged to marginalized ethnic groups and/or the lower social class, the novel’s exploration of women’s wartime experi…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Woman becoming… Gender possibilities in selected speculative short stories of Intan Paramaditha and Isabel Yap
The ontological question of woman’s nature forms the focus of this essay, which develops the theory of “woman-becoming...” to examine how the hegemonic patriarchal discourses and constructs of woman and femininity are subverted and reinterpreted in two speculative short stories by transnational Southeast Asian women writers, namely Intan Paramaditha’s “Beauty and the Seventh Dwarf” (2018) and Isabel Yap’s “Good Girls” (2021). Of interest here are…
Monstrous Woman and the Decolonial Gothic Female Gaze in Nuraliah Norasid’s The Gatekeeper
Using decolonial Gothic and gender theories, this essay examines Nuraliah Norasid’s novel The Gatekeeper (2017), the first speculative novel to win the Singapore Book Award for Best Fiction. Gatekeeper rewrites the Greek myth of Medusa through its protagonist, Ria, to tackle the complex relationship between Malay femininity and the forces of Singapore’s state-driven modernization and global capitalism that shape how race, gender, and class are co…
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia
Queering history: Palimpsestuous bodies and their stories in Zen Cho's The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
In her fantasy novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water (2020), transnational Malaysian writer Zen Cho agitates and disrupts Malaysia’s heteropatriarchal and ethnocentric history as well as Eurocentric LGBT discourses with the revisionary reinscriptions of gender and sexuality to give voice to decolonial theirstories, particularly those belonging to the minority and subaltern community of queer identities. Emphasising difference and…
The Bruneian Novel in English: Narrative Experiments in an ‘Outer Circle’ Country
The oil‐rich Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam boasts a small but growing English literary scene. Drawing on Kachru's insights into the ‘Outer Circle’ of World Englishes, this essay examines the Bruneian novel in English and its development in two phases: From 2009 to 2019, and from 2020 onwards. Authored by well‐educated Bruneians—also the group most competent in the use of English—in the Sultanate and abroad, the Bruneian novel in English reflects…
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