%0 Journal Article
%T Adrift on the Ocean: a study of K.S. Maniam¡¯s displaced characters
%A Susan Philip
%J Transforming Cultures
%D 2009
%I 
%X This paper analyses two plays by Malaysian Indian author K.S. Maniam, examining his ideas about the necessity to rearticulate state-authored, essentialising notions of cultural and ethnic identity towards the creation of a more hybrid and inclusive identity which does not demand allegiance to a single, rigidly defined culture. Maniam¡¯s main concerns in this context will be examined through a close analysis of his plays The Cord and The Sandpit: Womensis. My analysis of these two plays will be framed by the ideas articulated in Maniam¡¯s 2001 paper ¡°The New Diaspora¡±.
%K Maniam
%K Malaysia
%K identity
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/TfC/article/view/1379