Rainbows of Malay literature and beyond : festschrift in honour of Professor Md. Salleh Yaapar / edited by Lalita Sinha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinha, Lalita, editor.

Series:

Academic imprint series / Penerbit USM Rainbows of Malay literature and beyond

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malay literature--History and criticism.

Malay literature.

Malay literature--Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pulau Pinang, Malaysia : Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Literature within the Malay World; 1 The Sight of Multicoloured Radiance: Lighting Effects in Malay Love-and-Adventure Narratives and the Sufi Concept of Visuality; 2 Narrating Tragedy in an Epic Tradition: The Fallen Hero inHikayat Potjut Muhamat; 3 Unity in Diversity among Muslims in the Malay World: Literary Works as Seen from the Perspective of Communication; 4 The End of Jawi Islamic Scholarship? Kitab Jawi, Qur'aanic Exegesis, and Politics in Indonesia

5 An American Missionary Journey into the Malay Printing World6 The Image of Radio Technology in Modern Indonesian Literature; 7 Islamic Developments in Literature: The Case of the Malay Novel Imam by Abdullah Hussain; 8 Imagined Nation States in Modern Malay Plays; 9 Humour among Indonesian Muslims: A Neglected Genre in Malayo-Indonesian Studies; Poems:; The Prima Donna-I for Kak Jah; A Love Song for Ainal Adnin; Poems Dedicated to the Traveller-II: Songket; Part II: Beyond Malay Literature; 10 Threads that Bind: Cross-Influences in the Literatures of Southeast Asia

11 Against Western Paradigms: Postcolonialism and the Filipino Critic12 Language and Control: A Study of Point of View in Conrad'; s Selected Malayan Texts; 13 Usman Awang and Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Between Romanticism and Vitalism; 14 In Contemplation of the Beyond: Selected Poems of Ayn and Gitanjali in a Comparative Perspective; 15 The Post-Berlin Expressionism of Latiff Mohidin; 16 On -an; 17 The Discourse on Science and Modernity in the History and Philosophy of Science: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives; Poems:; The Myth of Rha-Hu and the Moon Princess; The Flute and the Old Man

Poems Dedicated to the Traveller-II: DervishPoems Dedicated to the Traveller-III: Jerba La Douce; Biodata of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

983-861-738-5

OCLC:

935255283