Which tongue? The imported colonial standard or motherland vernacular? exploring “death” as the birth of postcolonial Malaysia in Muthammal Palanisamy’s funeral chant
This article examines “death” in a funeral chant set in the plantation estates of Malaysia, and written in English and Tamil, as a metaphor for the birth of the nation. It explores how the death of communal linguistic elements, both in orality and symbolic references, lead to the deconstruction of m...
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University of Hawai'i Press
2022
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33414/1/Which%20tongue%2C%20The%20imported%20colonial%20standard%20or%20motherland%20vernacular.ABSTRCT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33414/2/Which%20tongue%2C%20The%20imported%20colonial%20standard%20or%20motherland%20vernacular.pdf |