Writing a New Society
Social Change Through the Novel in Malay
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ISBN-13:
9780824823047
Veröffentl:
2000
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2000
Seiten:
480
Autor:
Virginia Matheson Hooker
Gewicht:
730 g
Format:
226x153x34 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Recent social and political upheaval in Malaysia has taken many analysts by surprise, but the stresses and fissures in Malaysia society have been vividly described in Malay novels since the early 1960s. 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 twenty-six 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.
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