The (Malay) Malaysian writer’s dilemma

In this article, salleh want to conform to government propagandas by writing a nationalistic and patriotic literary works or to submit to self-creativity by writing about issues that surpass the moral and ethnic barriers in Malaysia. His Ideological principles and beliefs bar the writers’ creativity. Moreover, A vast majority of writers submit to the audience’s request- writing in Malay as the language is protected by the Constitution, so does the writers who wrote in Malay. These writers do not care to portray and write about sensitive issues like aesthetic, intellectual and moral fidelity Salleh Ben Joned considered himself to be a tiny minority. He is loyal to truth, beauty, justice and freedom. However, this kind of loyalty is considered as betrayal and apostasy in the eyes of the religion fundamentalist. He believes that writers should write about current issues, no matter how controversial it is. He assimilated Western ideas + Malay values = a well-rounded individual “Malaya” in Tagalog: freedom or consciousness – This is the “Malaya” that Ben Joned wants to inhibit, where World Literature is acknowledged. Writers should not prostitute issues like race and nationalism- writing about those issues just for the sake of money, not out of loyalty to the country What they gained and a few of them such as Salleh Ben Joned, he adapts the style of his lecturer writing. He is a student one of the famous lecturer and Australian writer. At the University of Tasmania, he became a student of a major Australian poet, James McAuley. He returned to Malaysia in 1973, and lectured in English Literature at University Malaya until 1983. The ways of writing from their lecturers do give an impact to the way of MLIE writer in their works.