Imagining and Injecting Malaysiana Into Fantasy Fiction
By Anna Tan
November 2022 FEATURE
PART OF THE reason many of us desire to visit western countries is because they have been presented to us as magical, wonderful places in literature. The way and tone in which places and cultures are described often make a huge difference in how we view them. Things unfamiliar to us, when written in a positive light, suddenly become desirable, exotic even.Likewise, when they are written about in a disparaging or disdainful tone, we internalise that as well. Unfortunately, many Malaysians...
Anna Tan
lived in Uxbridge, West London in 2018-2019 while pursuing an MA in Creative Writing: The Novel from Brunel University, London under a Chevening
scholarship. She is the author of the Absolution
series. Anna’s books are available in print from
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