Voices of Many Worlds

Voices of Many Worlds
Author: Fadillah Merican
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Reading Malaysian Literature in English

Reading Malaysian Literature in English
Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9811650217

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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction, and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on the postcolonial themes of ethnicity, gender, diaspora, and nationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The book explores the works of not just the established writers of the tradition but also those who have received little critical attention to date but who are equally gifted, such as Adibah Amin, Edward Dorall, Rehaman Rashid, and Huzir Suleiman. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English is widely used in daily life and yet marginalised in the creative domain to elevate the status of writings in the national language, i.e., Bahasa Malaysia. The book will demonstrate that in spite of such recurrent neglect of the medium, Malaysia has produced a number of outstanding writers in the language, who are comparable in creativity and craftsmanship to writers of other Anglophone traditions. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, postcolonial literatures, minority literatures, gender studies, and Southeast Asian studies.

Malaysian Literature in English

Malaysian Literature in English
Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2001
Genre: Malaysian drama (English)
ISBN:

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A Biography of Malaysian Writers

A Biography of Malaysian Writers
Author: Baharuddin Zainal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1985
Genre: Authors, Malay
ISBN:

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English translation of: Wajah.

The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature

The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature
Author: V.I. Braginsky
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 906
Release: 2022-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004489878

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Traditional literature, or 'the deed of the reed pen' as it was called by its creators, is not only the most valuable part of the cultural heritage of the Malay people, but also a shared legacy of Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Brunei. Malay culture during its heyday saw the entire Universe as a piece of literature written by the Creator with the Sublime Pen on the Guarded Tablet. Literature was not just the creation of a scribe, but a scribe himself, imprinting words on the 'sheet of memory' and thus shaping human personality. This book, the first comprehensive survey of traditional Malay literature in English since 1939, embraces more than a millennium of Malay letters from the vague data of the seventh century up to the early beginnings of the modern literatures in the late nineteenth century. The long path trodden by traditional Malay literature is viewed in historical and theoretical perspectives as a development of integral system, caused by cultural and religious changes, primarily by gradual Islamization. This changing system considered in the entirety of its genres and works, is seen both externally and internally: from the point of view of modern scholarship and through the examination of indigenous concepts of literary creativity, poetics and aesthetics. The book not only repesents an original study based on a specific historico-theoretical approach, but it is also a complete reference-work and an indispensable manual for students.