Writing a New Society
Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (Southeast Asia Publications Series)
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Author
Publication
2000-04-15 - University of Hawaii Press
Language
English
Word Count
123,000 words, Guess
Page Count
492 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewritingnewsociet0000hook
- ISBN-100824823044
- ISBN-139780824823047
- LibraryThing4124908
- Library of Congress Control Number99048973
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number42603192
- Better World Books9780824823047
- Open LibraryOL9521287M
Classifications
- LCCPL5134.H66 2000
- LCCPL5134 .H66 2000
Description
"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.
First Sentence
During the course of the twentieth century Malaya has become Malaysia and the country has been transformed from a resource producing colony to a self-governing, industrialised, high-profile member of the rapidly expanding regional grouping of Southeast As
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