Malaysian Literary Laureates

Malaysian Literary Laureates PDF Author: Solehan Ishak
Publisher: Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Malaysian Literary Laureates

Malaysian Literary Laureates PDF Author: Solehan Ishak
Publisher: Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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An Introduction to Modern Malaysian Literature

An Introduction to Modern Malaysian Literature PDF Author: Muhammad Haji Salleh
Publisher: ITBM
ISBN: 9830683079
Category : Malay literature
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Malaysian Literature in English

Malaysian Literature in English PDF Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527551989
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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This collection of essays brings together work by some of the most internationally acclaimed critics of Malaysian literature in English from different parts of the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. It investigates the works of major writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on thematic and stylistic trends. The book pays particular attention to issues such as gender, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora, hybridity and transnationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English, first introduced by the colonisers, has experienced a mixed fate of ups and downs in the post-independence period, due to the changing, and sometimes strikingly different, policies adopted by the government. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, Southeast Asian studies and postcolonial literatures.

Malaysia

Malaysia PDF Author: Keat Gin Ooi
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Annotation. This bibliographical reference to Malaysia, updated from 1986, covers 1,052 English-language source materials. Entries are arranged into 42 categories, such as economics, languages, recreation, and environment. Annotations are 50-150 words. The volume includes an introduction, a glossary of foreign terms, and a list of abbreviations and acronyms. Indexed by author, title, and subject, and includes four maps. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Malaysian Literature in English

Malaysian Literature in English PDF Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malaysian drama (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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A Bibliography of Malaysian Literature in English

A Bibliography of Malaysian Literature in English PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malaysian literature (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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The Infinite Longing for Home

The Infinite Longing for Home PDF Author: David C.L. Lim
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401201498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The Infinite Longing for Home is a groundbreaking study of Ben Okri’s and K.S. Maniam’s literary problematization of ‘home’ in relation to subjectivity and the nation within and beyond the context of Nigeria and Malaysia. Drawing on Lacan, Žižek, Laclau and Mouffe, and weaving through history, politics, philosophy and literature, this book critically examines the motives and means by which peoples forced to live together in a country love and hate each other, and overlook the truths about themselves, their actions and beliefs. It looks into why some embrace heterogeneity and open-endedness while others are internally compelled to over-identify passionately with their religion and race, and to posit theirs as irreducibly distinct from and superior to others’. The Infinite Longing for Home also traces through Okri’s and Maniam’s writings a way out of today’s political aporia, a path to the re-creation of a new society humbled and unified by the recognition of its participation in flawed humanity.

Chronicle of Malaysia

Chronicle of Malaysia PDF Author: Philip Mathews
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
ISBN: 9671061745
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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This revised and updated edition of the Chronicle of Malaysia brings the full dramatic sweep of Malaysia's history up to date, taking the reader through the nation's first 50 years from the formation of Malaysia in 1963 all the way to 2013. It is packed with illustrated news stories covering hundreds of the nation's key social, political, cultural and sporting events. As a compendium of all aspects of Malaysian life, the book captures the mood of the day with a sense of vividness and immediacy. Concise, accessible articles—revised and rewritten to engage today's readers—are introduced by headlines and liberally illustrated with photographs and specially commissioned cartoons. The book is structured chronologically, with an average of eight pages devoted to each year beginning with a succinct summary of the year's key events. A host of themes are covered: not just the major political and economic events but also the human side of the Malaysian experience—sports, fashion, music, the arts, architecture, lifestyle, disasters, crime and the social scene. These combine to give readers the feel of each era of Malaysia's past and enables them to draw parallels with the present.

Reading Malaysian Literature in English

Reading Malaysian Literature in English PDF Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811650217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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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.

Peninsular Muse

Peninsular Muse PDF Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039110612
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This book brings together for the first time interviews with sixteen major writers in the English language from Malaysia and Singapore. Three generations of writers representing various literary genres and ethnic groups come together to make this book fully illustrative of the literature of the two countries. In their respective interviews, the writers discuss significant issues pertaining to their own lives, careers, and works. They also explain what they think of the present state of their own societies, literatures, and cultures, and where they stand vis-à-vis the questions of religion, science, technology, censorship, gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationalism, and globalisation. Moreover, the writers comment on the challenges they encounter writing in an «alien» language as well as in an environment of growing materialism and technocracy; and, finally, they discuss the future of their own writing and writing in English in Malaysia and Singapore more generally.