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Asian Centre Anthology Of Malaysian Poetry In English
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Book Synopsis Asian Centre Anthology of Malaysian Poetry in English by : Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
Download or read book Asian Centre Anthology of Malaysian Poetry in English written by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaysian writing in English has had a history of over five decades since Malaysia attained independence. This anthology of Malaysian poetry in the English language represents the most complete single collection of poems by veteran as well as new authors to be released in recent decades. In keeping with general trends in poetry, the poets presented in this volume begin with themselves as centres of their own little worlds and then move outwards to those still close to them in different kinds of situations and relationships. They touch upon individual growth and experiences before taking the world and its concerns into their purview. Other poems explore religious and spiritual consciousness. The potential that Man has on his journey of life leads beyond his daily obsessions and takes him into realms of expanding consciousness, with the final stages of the long journey reaching the transcendental and mystical. Altogether, while providing a spectrum of recent Malaysian poetry in English, this collection also gives the reader insights into the unique voices of several generations of Malaysian poets dealing with a whole range of themes connected with their lives, universal issues and concerns.
Book Synopsis Tok Dalang and Stories of Other Malaysians by : Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
Download or read book Tok Dalang and Stories of Other Malaysians written by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tok Dalang and Stories of Other Malaysians is a collection of short fiction written by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof over several years. The stories deal with a range of characters and issues that in some ways are unique in Malaysian fiction in the English language. Its main strength lies in the fact that while Malay characters still make their appearances in several of the stories, the stories also touch upon aspects of their traditional culture, something rare in Malaysian writing. Additionally, lives and particular concerns of members of the minority communities in the country, including Tamil Muslims, Sikhs, Pakistanis, as well as Indonesians, have been explored both in depth as well as in a sympathetic manner for the first time in Malaysian writing. Through the writers grasp of the English language, including its local nuances, as well as a sensitive appreciation of their diverse cultures and cultural manifestations, the lives of Malaysians have been subtly coaxed into these stories, which are likely to find an important place in contemporary Malaysian literature in English.
Book Synopsis Sacred Rain by : Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
Download or read book Sacred Rain written by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Rain is the fourth collection of poems published by Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. It contains some of his recent work. Like his previous collections, the poems in Sacred Rain deal with a selected number of themes. Essentially, they are about the self and the relationships of the self with the multi-dimensional world and, more particularly, with higher realities. In this sense then, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, through a Malaysian writing in the English language, transcends narrow everyday concerns and, although presenting in them his own reflections about the self, attains a certain universality. His poems have broader appeal beyond narrow boundaries of relationship, nationality, race, or even the concerns of the physical world. The poems are intellectual as well as mystical. This uniqueness comes through the manner in which the poet exploits the potential of words and images, in keeping with his style as seen in his previous collections. His images come from a wide range of cultural traditions, as seen from the poems entitled “Hamlet” and “Tiresias Waiting”, seminal characters in Western literature seen from a new perspective. His familiarity with Eastern traditions comes through the example of “Mirza Ghalib’s Lament”, the title character being the most important of Indo-Muslim poets. This work is an important addition to Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof’s previous published work in the form of poetry, drama and short fiction.
Book Synopsis Malaysian Literature in English by : Mohammad A. Quayum
Download or read book Malaysian Literature in English written by Mohammad A. Quayum and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis ONE HUNDRED AND ONE THINGS MALAY by : GHULAM-SARWAR YOUSOF
Download or read book ONE HUNDRED AND ONE THINGS MALAY written by GHULAM-SARWAR YOUSOF and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, dedicated by its author to “all who understand or do not understand the Malays as well as to those who wish to know them better”, provides a rare and insightful entry into those elements that best define and represent the Malaysian Malay community. Fully aware of the fact that the Malays, as a relatively small race in global terms, has been influenced in terms of their traditional beliefs as well as cultural practices by elements from India, Indonesia as well as the World of Islam, the author yet manages to successfully indicate what makes the Malays unique when it comes to their identity. In essence, he catches the spirit or soul of the Malays. The features selected for this purpose have been defined or described in a relatively uncomplicated manner and in simple terms so that the work is accessible to non-expert readers both at home and abroad. It makes an interesting and almost casual entry into what may be defined as Malay. The photographs and illustrations provided add value to the work, which in many ways is a unique piece of writing.
Book Synopsis Voices of Many Worlds by : Fadillah Merican
Download or read book Voices of Many Worlds written by Fadillah Merican and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis THE TRIAL OF HANG TUAH THE GREAT by : GHULAM-SARWAR YOUSOF
Download or read book THE TRIAL OF HANG TUAH THE GREAT written by GHULAM-SARWAR YOUSOF and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great, a prize-winning play, uses an ancient story of the Malay hero, Hang Tuah, to re-examine of some of the issues connected with identity prevailing in Malaysian society over the past fifty years or so since the independence of Malaya and the establishment of Malaysia. It is an imaginative retelling of the story of Hang Tuah, associated with the Melaka Sultanate of the fifteenth century who, myth and legend maintains, never died, while historians, time and again questioning Hang Tuah’s very existence, have recently declared that such a figure never actually existed. The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great takes both these theories into consideration and through them, examines the traditional idea of a hero in the Malay psyche, linking him symbolically to certain individuals, such as Maharaja Lela, and a spectrum of events, mythical, legendary and historical, based on the hypothetical question of who Hang Tuah would have been if he had lived beyond 15th century Melaka right up to our own times and even beyond the present until the year 2020. The play’s text is a powerful and stunning confrontation of myth in the manner of Grotowski (Poor Theatre). In terms of staging, as envisioned by its author, The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great is based upon modern western theories and techniques, such as those of Bertolt Brecht (Epic Theatre) and Antonin Artaud (Theatre of Cruelty). In both senses, The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great is a groundbreaking Malaysian play.
Book Synopsis Peninsular Muse by : Mohammad A. Quayum
Download or read book Peninsular Muse written by Mohammad A. Quayum and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature by : Muhammad Haji Salleh
Download or read book An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature written by Muhammad Haji Salleh and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Post-colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and Malaysia by : Yoon-wah Wong
Download or read book Post-colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and Malaysia written by Yoon-wah Wong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present in English a history of post-colonial and diasporic Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia. The 12 essays collected in it provide an in-depth study of the emergence of the new Chinese literatures by looking at the origins, the themes, the major authors and their works, and how the creativity is closely connected with the experience of immigration and colonialization and the challenge of the post-colonial world. In examining a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the cultures of diasporic Chinese and post-colonial society, the author shows that each of the new literatures has its own traditions which reflect local social, political and cultural history. The essays also show that the literature of Singapore or Malaysia has a tradition of its own, and writers of world class. Besides the Chinese literary tradition, a native literary tradition has been created successfully.
Download or read book Twelve Strands written by Bernice Lee and published by Graceworks. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Strands pulls together the writing journeys of 12 Asian authors from countries as diverse as South Korea and Pakistan. Some write poetry and songs, while others write children’s books. Some are able to share the deepest pains and highest joys of those whose testimonies they give voice to. All feel an almost compulsive need to write so that the knowledge of the love of Christ can reach the farthest corners of their country, if not the world. They share a calling. The book aims to inspire a new generation of Asian writers and encourage current ones. The countries represented in the anthology are: Korea, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan/US, Malaysia, Cambodia, and China.
Book Synopsis NutMag Volume 3: Island Living by : Aathhini Adithan
Download or read book NutMag Volume 3: Island Living written by Aathhini Adithan and published by Malaysian Writers Society. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cool sea breeze, pounding waves, sweat and sand... Neon lights, narrow alleyways, driving beats... Slow and steady, snarling traffic, patience and impatience... Islands are microcosms and macrocosms, larger than life and yet smaller than you think. Whether real, fictional, or metaphorical, our third edition of NutMag is all about islands. This epub version contains 9 of the 10 original stories & poems. To purchase the original print copy with all the stories, contact Working Desk Publishing.
Book Synopsis The Creativity Market by : Dominique Hecq
Download or read book The Creativity Market written by Dominique Hecq and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Creativity Market' focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities around the world and beyond academia. It offers a thought-provoking analysis of creativity in the globalised market place and examines the intersection of the university sector and creative industries.
Book Synopsis The State and the Arts in Singapore by : Chong Terence
Download or read book The State and the Arts in Singapore written by Chong Terence and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Singapore's key arts policies and art institutions which have shaped the cultural landscape of the country from the 1950s to the present. The scholars and experts in this volume critically assess arts policies and arts institutions to collectively provide an overview of how arts and culture have been deployed by the state. The chapters are arranged chronologically to cover milestone events from the forging of 'Malayan culture'; the government's 'anti-yellow culture' campaign; the use of 'culture' for tourism; the setting up of the Advisory Council on Arts and Culture, the Renaissance City Report, the setting up of the School of the Arts, and others. Putting to rest the notion that Singapore is a 'cultural desert', this volume is valuable reading for students of cultural policy, policy makers who seek an understanding of Singapore's cultural trajectory, and for international readers interested in Singapore's arts and cultural policy.
Book Synopsis Suvarna-Padma, the Golden Lotus by : SARWAR YOUSOF
Download or read book Suvarna-Padma, the Golden Lotus written by SARWAR YOUSOF and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SuvaRna-Padma, the Golden Lotus is one the most important works of well-known Malaysian writer and scholar, Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, whose two previous plays, Halfway Road, Penang and The Trial of Hang Tuah the Great, have become internationally recognized for their originality of style, as well as significance of issues raised. This play, written in similarly original style, this time approaching the subject matter through the slant of symbolism and myth, deals with the existential dilemma of a writer, Vacha, in a repressive society where censorship is a major problem inhibiting creativity, seriously affecting him psychologically, as well as in terms of his private and public life. In terms of the pertinent issues it deals with, its meaning as well as its stylistic approach, this play transcends cultural boundaries to attain universality.
Book Synopsis Singapore Literature and Culture by : Angelia Mui Cheng Poon
Download or read book Singapore Literature and Culture written by Angelia Mui Cheng Poon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it more closely within literary developments worldwide. Drawing upon postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays unearth and introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their specific Singaporean local-historical contexts while also engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. Singaporean writers are producing work informed by debates and trends in queer studies, feminism, multiculturalism and social justice -- work which urgently calls for scholarly engagement. This groundbreaking collection of essays aims to set new directions for further scholarship in this exciting and various body of writing from a place that, despite being just a small ‘red dot’ on the global map, has much to say to scholars and students worldwide interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, as well as literary form and content. This book brings Singapore literature and literary criticism into greater global legibility and charts pathways for future developments.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora by : Chee-Beng Tan
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora written by Chee-Beng Tan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With around 30 million migrants worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants have had a major impact on the local societies (including the ethnic Chinese) and on China. The transnational networks between the Chinese in diaspora and China have become even more significant as China has emerged as an economic world power.
