What does it feel like when a people free themselves from the chains of colonialism and proclaim their independence? We find out in this new translation by Chang Shi Yen of Usman Awang’s moving story “A Flag Is Lowered.”
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A sharp social message masquerading as a courtly love story, Keris Mas’s first story, translated by Chang Shih Yen here, already showed his political leanings and literary gifts.
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In this story “Celebrating Eid at Grandmother’s Grave,” by Malaysia’s first National Laureate Keris Mas, translated by Chang Shih Yen, a woman tries to get a red shirt for her child so that he can celebrate Eid like the other children.
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