Abstract
ABSTRACT Malaysian supernatural and fantasy fiction typically belong to culture-specific mythologies that stay within the limits and boundaries of race and ethnicity. Zen Cho’s collection of fantasy short fiction Spirits Abroad, however, defies these limits and boundaries – and indirectly the ethnocentric politics of Malaysia – through representations of interracial and interspecies relationships. Exploring the emotional connections between human and magical or supernatural beings in selected stories, this article examines Cho’s subversive vision and articulation of an other-Malaysia that is made up of interstitial spaces and hybridized identities, and where the hierarchies and boundaries between native and migrant, self and other are dissolved. Her revisionary narratives not only contribute to the decolonizing of postcolonial Malaysia’s binary discourses and narratives of race and ethnicity, but are also essential to the imagining of a post-postcolonial Malaysian future.
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