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This book presents an overview of the literature of Brunei, surveying literary traditions, innovations and new approaches as well as historical and contemporary issues and challenges.
The Literature of Brunei will be of interest to researchers in World and Asian Literature, in particular Southeast Asian literature.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction; 1. The earliest Malay letters from Brunei
; 2. Pengiran Indera Mahkota aka Pengiran Shahbandar Mohammad Salleh bin Pengiran Sharmayuda, author of
Syair Rakis and Brunei's foremost literary figure
; 3.
Syair Rakis and Nineteenth century Bruneian Sultanate: Prophecy, Reality and Economy
; 4. The egg and chicken in Bruneian Malay Society: From folklore to present day food culture
; 5.
Burung garuda and
burung serandit - A textual enquiry of avian culture in Brunei Darussalam
; 6. Bruneian Women's Writing as an Emergent Minor Literature in English
; 7.8. The Temporal Mundane in Chinese Diaspora Writing from Brunei Darussalam
; 9. Bruneian drama: Between the local and the global
; 10. (Re)governing Translation Industry in Brunei: A Case Study on Creative Writing
; 11. A Comparative Analysis of the La Galigo and Syair Awang Semaun
; 12. On the Lineage of Contemporary Bruneian Literature
; Glossary; Index
About the author
Ooi Keat Gin is a Professor of the Modern History of Brunei/Borneo at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and Visiting Professor at the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea. With Victor T. King he co-edited
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei (Routledge 2023) and co-authored
The Handbook of Southeast Asian Studies: Pioneers and Critical Thinkers, Parts I & II (2024, Part I).
Kathrina Mohd Daud is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. She was co-editor of
The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (2017) with Grace V. S. Chin, and her latest novel,
The Witch Doctor's Daughter (Epigram 2022) was longlisted for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize (EBFP).
Summary
This book presents an overview of the literature of Brunei, surveying literary traditions, innovations and new approaches as well as historical and contemporary issues and challenges. The Literature of Brunei will be of interest to researchers in World and Asian Literature, in particular Southeast Asian literature.
