Rainbows of Malay Literature and Beyond: Festshrift in Honour of Professor Md. Salleh Yaapar (Penerbit USM)

Rainbows of Malay Literature and Beyond: Festshrift in Honour of Professor Md. Salleh Yaapar (Penerbit USM)
Author: Lalita Sinha
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-11-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9838617385

This Festschrift engages in the richness and variety of literatures and cultures of the Malay world, and goes beyond its shores to encounters between different cultures and traditions, and to the relationship between literary and other disciplines. Rainbows of Malay Literature and Beyond communicates the absorbing richness of inter-disciplinary study and knowledge.

An Emerald Hill by The Sea: Nature Poems of USM (Penerbit USM)

An Emerald Hill by The Sea: Nature Poems of USM (Penerbit USM)
Author: Muhammad Haji Salleh
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 983861744X

“This collection of nature poems is resonant and appealing. They record lyrically the beauty of the landscape of USM campus that is just an emerald at the edge of the straits, with dense trees hundreds of years old, little enchanting slopes, and valleys adorned with plants, as well as clear, clean lakes and flowing waters. Most interestingly this is expressed through moods of the months and seasons of an equatorial climate. All the more so, when these poems are accompanied by sketches which are also captivating.” Priv.-Doz. Dr. Arndt Graf Department of the Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia Asia-Africa-Institute University of Hamburg “Such magnificent poems that make one want to stay in this campus! Such a rich nature that can be nothing else than an invitation to study and to find the multitude of ideas.” Monique Lajoubert Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris “… translators … let the poets’ words bloom and sing. My good friends, Md. Salleh Yaapar and Lalita Sinha, have lent their exceptional talents to these poems. I am sure the beauty of their rendering will carry these poems beyond the shores of Penang and Malaysia.” Muhammad Haji Salleh

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

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.

Reading the Malay World

Reading the Malay World
Author: Rick Hosking
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1862548943

This collection of essays is the culmination of a symposium on the representation of Malays and Malay culture in Singaporean and Malaysian literature in English held in Universiti Putra Malaysia.

The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature

The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature
Author: V. I. Braginskiĭ
Publisher:
Total Pages: 890
Release: 2004
Genre: Malay literature
ISBN: 9789812302922

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 an integral system, influenced by cultural and religious changes, primarily by gradual Islamization.

Reading Malaysian Literature in English

Reading Malaysian Literature in English
Author: Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789811650239

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.