This book comprises a collection of essays that address a significant gap in the study of Malaysian Literature in English by exploring selected local and diasporic writings produced in the new postcolonial millennium including works by established emerging and new writers. The literary developments in this new millennium have been substantial and are reflected in the production of new voices viewpoints themes trends styles and forms. By articulating these changing postcolonial perspectives and conditions the chapters in this volume can inform and enrich the study of nation society and culture in a globalized and hyperreal age. Tapping into the difference diversity and hybridity of 21st-century historicized and glocalized multicultural Malaysia the millennium writings explore the changing identities and relations and their social cultural and political dimensions through the intersections of race gender sexuality and class. By examining new different or changing ideas forms themes and representations this book considers the vital ways the millennium voices and viewpoints can potentially help us critically rethink and resituate postcolonial studies on Malaysia as they spotlight challenges and new directions in the field. The book will be of interest to researchers academics and scholars in the field of Malaysian writing in English Southeast Asian literature Asian literature diaspora and literary studies. The chapters in the book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. | The Postcolonial Millennium New Directions in Malaysian Literature in English