Rumaizah Abu Bakar Analysis

1.0 Part 1: Literary figure

1.1 Introduction

Rumaizah Abu Bakar is the author that I choose for this term paper. She is one of the Silverfish Books writers. The reason for choosing her is because I think she is a successful Malaysian woman who is full of determination to achieve her goals and that makes me feels interested to dig more about her. There is actually not so much information I can collect on the internet about her background since I think, it is because she is still considered as a new and not so well-known Malaysian writer who is still in the process of developing her literary works. The only source I find reliable to get to know her is from her blog, rumaizahabubakar.blogspot.com. I also tried other alternative by emailing her, asking about her

Then each of them came out with their own individual collection. Rumaizah came out with her debut collection, The Female Cell, whereas Shi Li Kow and Chuah Kok Yee both came out with Without Anchovies and Ripples respectively.

In developing a short story, according to her, the time taken to write is varies from one short story to another. For The Female Cell, the book is divided into two parts. The first part of the collection is made up of 12 short fictions and classed under ‘Love, Lies and Lives and the second part is made up of 8 stories and grouped under ‘Travel Tales’. She took about three years to come out with the collections.

In her writing, she always makes use of the things she observes everyday and also something which relates to her experiences such as travel to overseas. In Books edited by SH Lim, Rumaizah once said, ‘Life can be hectic. While we rush through our daily chores and routine, if we could just pause for a while and see and hear our surroundings in slow motion instead, we discover many little, little things that we normally