黃錦樹是馬華文學新生代的代表人物，他創作於1995年的短篇小說《魚骸》是其寫作生涯中具有里程碑式的作品。《魚骸》用渾厚沉鬱的文字風格，講述了一個旅台馬華學者的現實境況與往事追憶，對離散華人的原鄉想像與身份認同問題進行了深入的考察。《魚骸》全篇散發著熱帶的氣息與神秘的中國氛圍，故事怪誕且意象充盈，將文化政治寓於美學的經營之中，在表面的情節背後潛藏著濃鬱的象徵意味，構成了獨特的“離散詩學”。而《魚骸》表述中的種種曖昧與悖論也是黃錦樹自己的困惑與危機。

Huang Jinshu is a representative figure of the new generation in Malaysian Chinese literature. The short story The Fish Skeleton he created in 1995 is a milestone in his writing career. With depressed style of writing, The Fish Skeleton tells the reality situation and reminiscing about the past of a Malaysian Chinese scholar in Taiwan, and explores thoroughly hometown imagination and identity problems of Diaspora Chinese. The Fish Skeleton sends out a kind of tropical flavor and mysterious Chinese atmosphere, filled with bizarre stories and images. It contains cultural politics in aesthetics, hides rich symbolic meaning behind the facial plots, and constitutes a unique Diaspora poetics. However, the ambiguity and paradox in the expression of The Fish Skeleton also compose Huang Jinshu's confusion and crisis.