The Melanau Fisherman

Authors

  • Christina Amanda Yin Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.17.2.2018.3599

Keywords:

Short story, gender, extended family, Melanau, Sarawak, Borneo

Abstract

The Melanau people are an indigenous ethnic group living in the coastal wetlands in the southwestern region of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Mukah, famed as the Melanau heartland, is a small town known for its fishing and sago industries. Set in Mukah, this short story tells the tale of two Melanau sisters faced with an unexpected change in their family circumstances leading to a clash of gender, extended family, culture and occupation.

Author Biography

Christina Amanda Yin, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus

A former broadcast journalist, news anchor, newspaper columnist and communications officer for a non-profit conservation organisation, Christina is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean at Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus. She has co-written and edited conservation publications including The Next 100, a manual of English and Conservation Education activities, and Orang-Utan Folklore and Iban communities. Christina has published short stories in Anak Sastra and meets weekly with students in a creative writing group on campus. Apart from her teaching, Christina organises student volunteers in Swinburne’s annual conservation events and inter-school debating championship, the largest English debating tournament in Borneo.

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Published

2018-09-04

How to Cite

Yin, C. A. (2018). The Melanau Fisherman. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.17.2.2018.3599

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2018): Special Issue: Tropical Imaginaries & Living Cities

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