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Translation Milestones in Contemporary Literature
Dr. Naila Ahmed Suhail
Abstract:
Southeast Asian fiction is simply the totality of all genre work produced by writers in or from the region. This plurality that defies easy classification offers each writer’s worldview, rooted in their specific culture, for readers to explore and appreciate. A vast repository of ideas is brought out by recently published works in translation viz. Chinatown, a Vietnamese novel by Thuân, Happy Stories, Mostly by the Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Indonesian author Budi Darma’s People from Bloomington and Saadat Hasan Manto’s collection of Urdu short stories The Dog of Tithwal. It clearly demonstrates that not everyone shares the dominant and hegemonic Western, majority white, cis-gender, and individualistic culture that strangles everything else.