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.
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The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature
Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Phillippines, Thailand and Vietnam
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The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature
Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Phillippines, Thailand and Vietnam
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 Buddhist Hagiography in Forming the Canon in the Classical Literatures of Indochina
- 2 Myanmar Prose Writing: Tradition and Innovation in the Twentieth Century
- 3 Continuity and Change in the Burmese Literary Canon
- 4 Literature in Transition: An Overview of Vietnamese Writing of the Renovation Period
- 5 The Classics of Tagalog Literature
- 6 Literary Excellence as National Domain: Configuring the Masterpiece Novel in the Philippines and Malaysia
- 7 Development in Malay Criticism
- 8 Is there a Women’s Canon?
- 9 The Construction and Institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi as the Father of Modern Malay Literature: The Role of Westerners
- 10 The Regulation of Beauty: J. Kats and Javanese Poetics
- 11 The Emergence of Twentieth Century Cambodian Literary Institutions: The Case of Kambujasuriya
- 12 The Canon of Indonesian Literature: An Analysis of Indonesian Literary Histories Available in Indonesia
- 13 Towards the Canonizing of the Thai Novel
- 14 Tajus Salatin (‘The Crown of Sultans’) of Bukkhari al-Jauhari as a Canonical Work and an Attempt to Create a Malay Literary Canon
- 15 Books of Search: Convention and Creativity in Traditional Lao Literature
- 16 Shot by Foreign Can(n)ons: Retrieving Native Poetics
- Selected References
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