Readings in Modern Malay Literature
Author: Maimunah Mohd. Tahir (Ungku.)
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maimunah Mohd. Tahir (Ungku.)
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Muhammad Haji Salleh
Publisher: ITBM
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9830683079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rick Hosking
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1862548943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Safian Hussain
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9789836227454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Washima Che Dan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1443842931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fifteen chapters in this volume explore both new and tested theoretical perspectives on literature and culture at large; this multiplicity of discourses is a reflection of the implicit discontent in conforming to the New World Order, and a contestation against hierarchical relationships between countries, which inform the social, cultural and political climates of weaker nations. With the political and economic hegemony of stronger nations, weaker nations run the risk of being dominated, or at the very least, having their own national identity and sovereignty steeped in ambivalence in the face of a globalised culture. This volume hopes to bring together critical views in relation to the construction of cultural studies in the Western framework, the application of literary theory in the readings of vernacular literature, contestation of the mainstream scientistic methodology of cultural evaluation, the role of English literature in Asian cultures, the application of postcolonial theory in literature, literary ethics in relation to Islamic literature, as well as the Islamic and Western conceptions of democracy. More than half of the articles in this collection centre on Islam as a guiding principle, or as a context through which critical perspectives are made on literature and culture in today’s globalised world order. This inadvertent foregrounding of Islam reflects a continuing dialogue on and with Islam and its significant impact on existing academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.