Readings in modern Malay literature
By: Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir.
Publisher: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Other titles: Modern Malay literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern Malay literature, its growth, development, and future challenges; title: The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi as father of modern Malay literature; title: Between content and aesthetics, "modernity" in the writings of Abdullah Munshi, the acclaimed father of modern Malay literature; title: O.T. Dussek and modern Malay literature; title: A reinterpretation of "art for society", the ideological underpinnings of the generation of the writers of the 1950s; title: Women novelists in modern Malay literature; title: Nation, nationalism, and national literature in Malaysia; title: Sastera Islam, Malaysia's literary phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s; title: Shafie Abu Bakar's teori takmilah, Malaysia's Islamic framework for literary appreciation and evaluation; title: Mohd. Affandi Hassan's notion of persuratan baru (genuine literature).