Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red
This paper examines Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever”, one noir story taken from Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red (2013), a noir anthology published in Malaysia. Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” is a self-claimed noir work contained by noir sensibility with portrayals of postcolonial experiences written from th...
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ukm-129022019-05-13T11:09:48Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12902/ Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red Ririn Kurnia Trisnawati, This paper examines Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever”, one noir story taken from Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red (2013), a noir anthology published in Malaysia. Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” is a self-claimed noir work contained by noir sensibility with portrayals of postcolonial experiences written from the perspective of contemporary-postcolonial Malaysian society. Both its noir sensibility and postcolonial experiences constitute the darkness and alienation which are commonly associated with noir fiction. Consequently, this paper looks into noir sensibility or noir parameters that construct Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” and, simultaneously, the inclusion of subversion of the West and East as a fragment of the postcolonial experiences that can also function as noir sensibility. The finding shows that the noir sensibility is manifested, firstly, by the noir theme comprising issues of mysticism and violence and, secondly, by the noir protagonist who is doomed and alienated. Additionally, the mystical East represented by the figure of Nyai Roro Kidul, the Queen of the Sea, has drowned the characters into darkness, chaos and, most importantly, subversion of the West and the East binary. Thus, they impressively shape this story to be a noir narrative with postcolonial issue. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12902/1/20241-85230-1-PB.pdf Ririn Kurnia Trisnawati, (2018) Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 24 (3). pp. 59-71. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1125 |
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This paper examines Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever”, one noir story taken from Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir:
Red (2013), a noir anthology published in Malaysia. Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” is a self-claimed noir work
contained by noir sensibility with portrayals of postcolonial experiences written from the perspective of
contemporary-postcolonial Malaysian society. Both its noir sensibility and postcolonial experiences constitute
the darkness and alienation which are commonly associated with noir fiction. Consequently, this paper looks
into noir sensibility or noir parameters that construct Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” and, simultaneously, the
inclusion of subversion of the West and East as a fragment of the postcolonial experiences that can also
function as noir sensibility. The finding shows that the noir sensibility is manifested, firstly, by the noir theme
comprising issues of mysticism and violence and, secondly, by the noir protagonist who is doomed and
alienated. Additionally, the mystical East represented by the figure of Nyai Roro Kidul, the Queen of the Sea,
has drowned the characters into darkness, chaos and, most importantly, subversion of the West and the East
binary. Thus, they impressively shape this story to be a noir narrative with postcolonial issue. |
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red |
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red |
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red |
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red |
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Noir sensibility and the Mystical East in Amir Hafizi’s “The Unbeliever” of Amir Muhammad’s KL Noir: Red |
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noir sensibility and the mystical east in amir hafizi’s “the unbeliever” of amir muhammad’s kl noir: red |
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