Literary freedom and the need to 'inter-logue'

comments     Neil Khor     Published     Updated

COMMENT The controversy about national laureate Abdullah Hussein’s novel Interlok has taken a strange and twisted route. It demonstrates clearly how everything that comes into contact with the poison of racial politics is ultimately destroyed.

                    

In this case, the Education Ministry’s suggestion that the novel be retained as a Form Five textbook so long as the “offending” passages be edited out is a decision motivated by political expediency. More seriously, it is robbing us of literary freedom.

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