Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article considers how Bruneian women's writings in English constitute an emergent minor literature by analysing the subordinated status of gender and language in the nation space. Based on three key features of minor literature – linguistic deterritorialisation, political identity, and collective agency, I argue that these writings resist the homogenising influences of the state by straddling two major language discourses – the local, national discourse of Brunei Malay and the global, or international, discourse of English – and thus, two different worldviews and cultures, in the negotiation of hybrid identities and voices that collectively express an alternative community and sensibility.
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