Writing a New Society
Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (Southeast Asia Publications Series)
by Virginia Matheson Hooker
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"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.
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Histoire, Conditions sociales, Changement social, Literatur, Social change, Social conditions, Roman, Sozialer Wandel, Geschichte, Bahasa Malaysia, Malay fiction, History, Structure sociale, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, Romans, Ethnizitat, Soziale Situation, Maleis, Malaiisch, Roman malais, Social structure, Literatuurkritiek, Malay literature, history and criticism, Social change in literature, Indonesia, Asian studies, SociologyShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Writing a New Society: Social Change Through the Novel in Malay (Southeast Asia Publications Series)
April 15, 2000, University of Hawaii Press
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0824823044 9780824823047
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Writing a New Society: Social Change Through the Novel in Malay
July 2000, Allen & Unwin
Hardcover
1865081868 9781865081861
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"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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