The Ambivalence of an Anglophile Subject in Kam Raslan's Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures.
This paper focuses on ambivalence, a prominent concept in postcolonial studies and a recurrent theme in an anglophile subject in Kam Raslan's novel, Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures (2007). As a result of ambivalence, the anglophile subject feels alien in his perception of himse...
| Publicado en: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 48 - 62 |
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