Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

By: NAZRY BAHRAWI (ED.)

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Novel,

ISBN: 9789811442957

SKU: BE500745866885

Pages: 200

Description: From a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. Especially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.