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Writing a new society : social change through the novel in Malay
- Title
- Writing a new society : social change through the novel in Malay / Virginia Matheson Hooker.
- Author
- Hooker, Virginia Matheson, 1946-
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xviii, 492 pages : maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for transforming Malay ideas about themselves and their society.
- Virginia Hooker focuses on the underlying anxiety about racial identity, which underpins much of Malay writing and examines how ethnic identity is constructed and expressed."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Southeast Asia publications series
- Uniform Title
- Southeast Asia publications series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 466-479) and index.
- Contents
- Titles and Short Titles of Malay Novels -- A Note on Malay Spelling -- Introduction: Texts and Contexts -- 1. Love and Change: the Book and Reason -- 2. Writing and Society in the 1920s and 1930s -- 3. The 'New Hikayat' -- 4. The Power of Parody: Responding to Western Technology and Rationalism -- 5. War and Suffering: Islam, Society and Renewal -- 6. Writers and Rakyat: 'Intellectuals Who Have the Spirit of the People' -- 7. Salina: A World of Characters and 'Aware Human Beings' -- 8. 'Literature is the Instrument for Development' -- 9. The New Malay (as Seen by the Old Malay) -- 10. Conclusion: Society and Genre -- App. Biographical Details of Authors.
- ISBN
- 0824823044
- LCCN
- 99048973
- OCLC
- 42603192
- ocm42603192
- SCSB-4299693
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries