Viewing and reviewing the city from romantic to postmodern lenses: An analysis of 5 poems on Kuala Lumpur

Mohd Ramli, Aimillia (2017) Viewing and reviewing the city from romantic to postmodern lenses: An analysis of 5 poems on Kuala Lumpur. In: The 17th Biennial Asiapac Symposium of Literature and Culture, 22nd-24th November 2017, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

While cities around the world are being “read” in literary studies as cosmopolitan and contested terrains, Kuala Lumpur seems to have escaped a similar fate. There are a good many reasons for this but the one that has stood out time and again is that this city, the capital city of Malaysia, has been persistently represented in Malaysian literature through a narrow Romantic lens that tend to negatively depict modern metropolitan life in favour of the benign inØuence of the countryside. Yet, in the last ten years and in a number of creative writings on Kuala Lumpur, this trend has started to change as there is a growing acceptance of the city as a postmodern hub of social and cultural diversities. This paper is a study of this transformation in 5 selected poems that were published from 1960s up to 2017.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Invited Papers)
Additional Information:	2219/62168
Uncontrolled Keywords:	poems, Kuala Lumpur
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr. Aimillia Mohd Ramli
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2018 10:46
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2018 10:46
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/62168

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