The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Phillippines, Thailand and Vietnam,9780700710904

The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Phillippines, Thailand and Vietnam

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780700710904
ISBN10: 0700710906
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-03
Publisher(s): RoutledgeCurzon
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Summary

The literary canon is one of the most lively areas of debate in contemporary literary studies. This set of essays is both timely and original in its focus on the canon in South-East Asian literatures, covering Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. They vary in focus, from the broad panoramic survey of trends in a national literature to very specific discussions of the role of individuals in shaping a canon or the place of a particular text within a tradition, and from contemporary to traditional literature. They include discussions of the development of prose fiction, censorship and artistic freedom, the role of westerners in codifying indigenous literatures, the writing of literary history, the development of literary criticism and indigenous aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
List of Contributors
ix
Buddhist hagiography in forming the canon in the classical literatures of Indochina
1(7)
Yuriy M. Osipov
Myanmar prose writing: tradition and innovation in the twentieth century
8(13)
Annemarie Esche
Continuity and change in the Burmese literary canon
21(20)
Anna J. Allott
Literature in transition: an overview of Vietnamese writing of the Renovation Period
41(10)
Dana Healy
The classics of Tagalog literature
51(7)
Ruth Eynia S. Mabanglo
Literary excellence as national domain: configuring the masterpiece novel in the Philippines and Malaysia
58(18)
Luisa J. Mallari
Development in Malay criticism
76(12)
Lisbeth Littrup
Is there a women's canon?
88(11)
Christine Campbell
The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi as the father of modern Malay literature: the role of westerners
99(15)
Ungku Maimunab Mohd. Tahir
The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and Javanese poetics
114(21)
Bernard Arps
The emergence of twentieth century Cambodian literary institutions: the case of Kambujasuriya
135(12)
George Chigas
The canon of Indonesian literature: an analysis of Indonesian literature: literary histories available in Indonesia
147(25)
E. Ulrich Kratz
Towards the canonizing of the Thai novel
172(11)
David Smyth
Tajus Salatin (`The Crown of Sultans') of Bukkhari al-Jauhari as a canonical work and an attempt to create a Malay literary canon
183(27)
V. I. Braginsky
Books of Search: convention and creativity in traditional Lao literature
210(24)
Peter Koret
Shot by foreign can(n)ons: retrieving native poetics
234(20)
Muhammad Haji Salleh
Selected References 254

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