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Dedication: For Choo Kwei Heong, my other grandmother
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Works about this Work
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Gothic Spaces and The Tropical City : Reading The Crocodile Fury, Haunting the Tiger, Life’s Mysteries
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Etropic , vol. 17 no. 2 2018; (p. 18-32)'Beth Yahp’s The Crocodile Fury (1992), K.S. Maniam’s Haunting the Tiger (1996), and Shirley Lim’s Life’s Mysteries (1995) articulate the ambivalence of interpreting the cultural beliefs of the Malays, Chinese, and Indians of the former Malaya with the evolving spiritual beliefs of Christianity and Catholicism influenced by British colonisation. In Beth Yahp’s The Crocodile Fury the ghosts of the colonial past vie for power with the demons of Chinese cultural beliefs in a convent situated in the liminal space between the jungle and the urban environment. The convent is a “civilised space” with the jungle as an encroaching wilderness haunted by Chinese gods and the female vampire ghost Pontianak of the Malay cultural tradition. Similarly, Maniam’s short stories in Haunting the Tiger situate the supernatural and the abject in the liminal spaces between the city and the jungle to express the metaphorical exile experienced by the Indian and Chinese diaspora in Malaysia. The trope of liminality is most evident in Shirley Lim’s short stories in Life’s Mysteries where the domestic and urban space of culture are viewed through prisms of imprisonment and disempowerment. The authors uncover the psychological and social exile experienced by colonised subjects through the gothic themes of shadows, darkness and the underworld.' (Publication abstract)
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Southeast Asian Australian Women’s Fiction and the Globalization of “Magic”
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 50 no. 6 2014; (p. 675-687) 'This article discusses the evolution of magical realism in relation to the postcolonial by looking at three contemporary Australian women authors originating from Southeast Asia. Besides extending magical realism to the Australian and Southeast Asian regions, these authors show the contours of the literary mode to be flexible, as magical realism has moved from being a localized Latin American trend to assuming a significant status on the international market. Concomitantly, their fiction develops various forms of a postcolonial aesthetics of “home” – forms that are neither pure nor authentic, but always-already partial and complicit with orientalist practices, in particular in light of new fault lines opened up in the wake of decolonization. This is one reason why their fiction embraces magical realist modes of representation: as an ambivalent literary mode, straddling the “actual” and the “imaginary”, and situated in-between resistance to, and collaboration with, Eurocentric modes of representation, magical realism retains a strong political relevance in a globalized, postcolonial era.' (Publication abstract) -
Two Approaches to Constructing 'Chinese' Cultural Identity : Australia's Authors with Chinese Ancestry
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 296-313) -
Reading the Postcolonial Allegory in Beth Yahp's 'The Crocodile Fury' : Censored Subjects, Ambivalent Spaces, and Transformative Bodies
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Nebula , March vol. 6 no. 1 2009; (p. 93-115) -
Writing Chinese Diaspora : After the 'White Australia Policy'
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 263-270) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 158-172) An overview of Chinese-Australian writing.
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[Untitled]
1998-1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Il Tolomeo , vol. 4 no. 1998-1999; (p. 61-62)
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Sites of Resistance
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 55 1993; (p. 66-69)
— Review of The Crocodile Fury 1992 single work novel ; Praise 1992 single work novel ; Maestro 1989 single work novel ; Illicit Passage 1992 single work novel -
When Cultural Loyalties Clash
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 12 December 1992; (p. 5)
— Review of The Crocodile Fury 1992 single work novel ; The Ancestor Game 1992 single work novel -
Forecasts
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 72 no. 1029 1992; (p. 27)
— Review of Remember Me, Jimmy James 1992 single work novel ; The Crocodile Fury 1992 single work novel -
Crossing into the Dream World
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 September 1992; (p. 46)
— Review of The Crocodile Fury 1992 single work novel -
The Wider Shores of Gothic
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 66 no. 2 2007; (p. 149-156) Examines the 'gothic tradition in Australian and contemporary 'Australasian' fiction'. (Meanjin) -
Occidental Echoes : Beth Yahp's Ambivalent Malaya
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 33 no. 1 2007; (p. 174-189) - y The Crocodile Fury by Beth Yahp Melbourne : Council of Adult Education , 1995 Z1505467 1995 single work criticism
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Leading a Writer's Life
Jacqueline Ann Surin
(interviewer),
2005
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sun [Kuala Lumpur] , 27 August 2005; -
Writing Chinese Diaspora : After the 'White Australia Policy'
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Down Under : Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009; (p. 263-270) Australian Made : A Multicultural Reader 2010; (p. 158-172) An overview of Chinese-Australian writing.
Awards
- 1997 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
- 1993 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction
- 1993 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards — Ethnic Affairs Commission Award
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