We Are Playing Relatives A Survey of Malay Writing |
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| Author:
| Maier, Henk |
| Series title: | Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-6718-217-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.00 |
Book Description:
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We are playing relativesoffers a comprehensive survey of literary writing in the Malay language. It starts with the playful evocations of language and reality in the
Hikayat Hang Tuah, a work that circulated on the Malay Peninsula in the eighteenth century, and follows the Malay literary impulse up to the beginning of the twenty-first century, a time when the dominant notions of Malay literature seem to fade away in the cyberspace created on the island of Java, and the...
More Description We are playing relativesoffers a comprehensive survey of literary writing in the Malay language. It starts with the playful evocations of language and reality in the Hikayat Hang Tuah, a work that circulated on the Malay Peninsula in the eighteenth century, and follows the Malay literary impulse up to the beginning of the twenty-first century, a time when the dominant notions of Malay literature seem to fade away in the cyberspace created on the island of Java, and the Hikayat Hang Tuah'splay and dance on the sounds of Malay words seem to be infused with a new vitality.