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Amir MUHAMMAD reviews Urban Odysseys
Sex in the cityReview by Amir Muhammad
Urban Odysseys: KL Stories
Edited by Janet Tay & Eric Forbes
(MPH Group Publishing, 2009)
THIS HANDSOMELY PRODUCED VOLUME is a good excuse to talk about Malaysian Literature in English (MLE). Like the dragon of Lake Chini, the MLE is a semi-mythical creature that is occasionally discussed but never parades itself in public; itâs not even known whether it has any offspring.
Oh, there have been occasional sightings over the decades. The late Lloyd Fernando edited a few anthologies of local English stories. Then came Skoob Books, Rhino Press, and most recently Silverfishbooksâall eager to prove that the shy monster does exist and is very approachable, and for only a modest fee.
Something sexier is needed. There are many things that can be done with English, either in public or behind closed doors, but our official policy has always made it utilitarian. Itâs a dead giveaway that out of all possible subjects to be taught in English, the government chose Science and Mathematicsâleft-brain, IQ-intensive, upwardly mobile realms. But you can only learn to love a language once it stops being respectable!
Urban Odysseys: KL Stories is the latest attempt (by the private sector, of course) to sex things up. This anthology of mainly fictional stories (with a sprinkling of essays) is set against the city that a French writer almost a century ago dubbed Kuala Lâimpurâbecause of our many brothels. The bright lights of the big city still illuminate all kinds of grime and sleaze, so itâs a very good place to start.
It goes without saying (which isnât gonna stop me from saying it) that any anthology is a mixed bunch. So this collection isnât as consistently enjoyable as, say, Shih-Li Kowâs Ripples and Other Stories, which you should rush out and get if you have not. The sublime and the boring rub up against one another like so many harried LRT passengersâbut the journeyâs the thing!
KL is mainly a Cantonese-speaking city with most signs in Malay, so where does English fit in? Thereâs a small typo on the lucky page 88, where teh tarik becomes the tarik. I draw your attention to it not out of Schadenfreude (God knows the books I publish have enough typos) but itâs oddly troubling that such an iconic local beverage tends to get automatically âcorrectedâ (into a mistake) each time you type it on a computer. Does our local reality resist being rendered in English?
It doesnât have to, as long as the writer has a good ear. The best stories in here burst with life, while the worst merely pile on details without the benefit of a pulse, and just donât sound right. Malaysians spend more time talking than thinking (oh, listen to me!) so if the dialogue is off, the rest of the story often collapses, and I donât care how eloquent those interior monologues are.
Iâd like to concentrate on my three favourite stories here. If youâre a cheapskate you might want to read them for free at the bookstore, but the crafty editors chose relatively long stories (average length: 15 pages) and besides, what makes you so sure we have the same taste?
Jennifer Taiâs âSmall Motherâ is an old-fashioned melodrama, right down to the thunder and lightning at the end, and so what? You can feel the passage of time (and I donât mean that sarcastically) and those sepia-tinted interactions at the hair salon achieve an erotic frisson all the more potent for being so buttoned-up.It was only when I read the biographical notes at the end that I realised all three of those writers live overseas! What gives? But perhaps we shouldnât get all worked up about that; KL, like many cities, treats transience as a constant. And we should be happy there was a muddy confluence that enabled the stories in this book to come together in this way, to make us stop and see things anewâat least until we are taken at the next flood.
Reproduced from Amir Muhammadâs Pulp Friction column in the Malay Mail of March 11, 2009
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