Malay Setches

Ma critique du livre Malay Sketches publiée sur GoodReads. Vu que j’ai lu le livre en anglais, la revue est en anglais.

Once a label of colonial taxonomy, Malay sketches becomes in Sa’at’s hands an act of reclamation. His 48 short stories chip away at the old colonial impulse of flattening difference to fit neatly in a form, with scenes where Malay lives refuse to sit still under scrutiny : Defiant girls, uneasy romances, myth brushing against modernity. The cumulative effect is prismatic, revealing what Singapore’s tidy racial categories tend to obscure.

— Jacques Duquesne