本論文探索了晚近馬來西亞英語和華語小說中的「冒現」時刻。根據普拉薩(Vijay Prashad)提出的多元文化主義概念，本文認為，這些時刻為閱讀後殖民文本觀點呈現了一個有別於主流「身份政治」框架，而指出我們有必要更著重重建人與自然互動和關係的共同性政治。這樣一來，族裔特殊性的限制得以舒緩，並以不動搖團結歷史的形式呈現，這也為我們閱讀文化檔案中的其他文本提供了一種頗具啟發性的方法，以發現、分析和播散更多跨越疆界的途徑。

The present essay tracks “emergent” moments in recent Malaysian Anglophone and Sinophone fiction. Drawing on the notion of polyculturalism proposed by Vijay Prashad, it argues that these moments delineate an alternative to the dominant “identity politics” framework for reading postcolonial texts, endorsing instead a politics of commonality based in part on the larger existential imperative to re-build human engagement and relationality with nature. The upshot is a loosening of the “confines” of ethnic particularity without foregoing historically sedimented forms of solidarity, and this also yields a heuristic for reading other texts in the cultural archive so that more border-crossing affordances can be discovered, analysed, and disseminated.