December 2021 – Issue 3

FOUNDING EDITOR :

Malachi Edwin Vethamani

JOINT EDITOR :

Danton Remoto

COPY EDITOR :

Augustine Chay

Cover photograph by @theblowup

MMOJ  is published by Ardent and Paramount Enterprise

e-ISSN : 2773-5613

 

 – EDITORIAL – 

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– POETRY –

 

Wong Phui Nam,

At Eighty-Six, Darkfall, The God, and The Hangman

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Chuah Guat Eng,

The Meeting of East and West

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Kiriti Sengupta,

My Father Looks like Me and Manosphere

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Guna Moran,

Fear of Loneliness, Fear, and That Gaze

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Osahon Oka,

Finding my Body After an Earthquake  and Touching Myself Must be an Incantation

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Paul GnanaSelvam,

Unmarried and Bells in Paradise

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Aneek Chatterjee,

Vacation, I, and We

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Lawrence Pettener,

Round Again and A Sense of Self

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Ismim Putera,

And My Father Wants Me to Marry Her and Semangka

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Victor Rodriguez Núñez,

the muskrat’s notebook

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 – DRAMA –

 

Wong Phui Nam,

Anike

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Leon Salam,

Bonsai Tree

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 – NOVEL –

 

William Tham Wai Liang,

Excerpt from ‘The Last Days’

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Viji Krishnamoorthy,

Excerpts from ‘912 Batu Road’

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– SHORT STORY – 

 

Bissme S,

Pink

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David Lightfoot,

Get Him to the Reunion

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Umar Timol,

The Disbelieving Believer

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– CREATIVE NONFICTION – 

 

Otto Fong,

Losing My Mother and Finding Myself

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 – SCHOLARLY ESSAY –

 

Enakshi Samarawickrama,

Masking Masculinity Crisis with Gender Performance in Paula Hawkins ‘ The Girl on the Train’

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 – BOOK REVIEWS – 

 

Shivani Sivagurunathan,

Review of ‘Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation’ (2021)

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William Tham Wai Liang,

Review of ‘The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories’ (2021)

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– A SPECIAL FEATURE ON WONG PHUI NAM –

 

The Editors,

Introduction to the Special Feature on Wong Phui Nam

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Wong Phui Nam,

Introduction to ‘how the hills are distant’ 

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Alan Durant,

Making One’s Language As One Goes Along: Wong Phui Nam’s ‘Ways Of Exile’ 

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Wong Phui Nam,

Out of the Stony Rubbish: A Personal Perspective on the Writing of Verse in English in Malaysia

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KS Maniam,

Introduction to ‘An Acre of Day’s Glass’

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Daryl Lim Wei Jie,

Barren Fecundity: The Poetry of Wong Phui Nam

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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim,

In Praise of a Gentle Poet

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Edwin Thumboo,

Wong Phui Nam – A Note

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 – CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES – 

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