![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First published in 2012 by Ethos Books, it will released early in 2018 for the international market by the new imprint Gaudy Boy. Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches is a short story collection that achieves a balance between the sensitive nature of analyzing race and ethnicity from the perspective of a minority and a playful inventiveness by making the discussion seem lighthearted. Yet these statistics only go so far in understanding the subject’s sensitivity for many people. The remaining half of survey respondents, however, still felt a “simultaneous” identity of both Singaporean and racial heritage. In November 2017, the Singaporean Institute of Policy Studies presented evidence that for the first time more Singaporeans identify with the city-state than with their own ethnic lineage. The importance people place on identity is often a prickly topic these days-especially in multi-religious, multiracial communities like that of Singapore’s five and a half million citizens. ![]() Exploring identity in a multi-ethnic community through fiction can be a sensitive subject. ![]()
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