Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan
Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan

Author: Shahnon Ahmad

Publisher: Alaf 21

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 983124236X

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MATI hidup dan susah senang dipegang oleh ALLAH S.W.T. Ini pegangan Lahuma sekarang. Malah, telah menjadi pegangan yang kukuh sejak zaman datuknya, Haji Debasa. Namun, Lahuma tetap meneruskan pegangan itu walaupun datuknya telah lama pulang ke rahmatullah. Jeha juga serupa pegangannya. Dia cuma ikut suaminya saja. Ikutan itu bukan sekadar ikutan buta tuli semata-mata, tetapi Jeha pun ada pegang-an juga. Dia percaya sungguh bahawa mati hidup dan susah senang dipegang oleh ALLAH S.W.T. Kesenangan dan kebahagiaan diterima de-ngan penuh kesyukuran. Diterima dengan ucapan alhamdulillah seribu kali. Penderitaan serta malapetaka yang menimpa pun diterima dengan ucapan alhamdulillah seribu kali juga. Demikian pegangan Lahuma dan isterinya, Jeha.

Nusantara Bergerak
Nusantara Bergerak

Author:

Publisher: Gerakbudaya Enterprise

Published:

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9670076145

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Jurnal Sang Pemula merupakan satu pertubuhan kecil yang terdiri daripada 12 anak muda dan di bawah pimpinan Dr Azhar Ibrahim. Tanpa dana besar, tanpa tujuan menjana ratusan ringgit, apatah lagi menjadi popular. Tujuan JSP digerakkan cuma satu iaitu berkongsi ide buat masyarakat (khususnya anak muda) kembali mempersoal, mengkritik, memikirkan dan menganalisis apa yang berlaku di sekeliling mereka. Lebih-lebih lagi ketika negara sedang berhadapan dengan ide-ide jumud. Maka, dari hasil pelbagai wacana, bengkel dan idea-idea yang kami hadiri dan yang direnungkan, kami curahkan sebahagiannya di dalam buku ini sebagai satu catatan buat Jurnal Sang Pemula sendiri juga untuk masyarakat. Secara umumnya ada lima tema besar yang difokuskan dalam Nusantara Bergerak iaitu sejarah, sastera (cerpen), feminisme, pembangunan (kemiskinan) dan politik. Selamat membaca! Dan semoga berbahagia semua.

Writing a New Society
Writing a New Society

Author: V. Matheson-Hooker

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9004488057

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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. In a radical break with the traditional notion of Malay society as being totally dependent on the Sultan, the book shows how the novelists centre their writings on descriptions of 'ordinary' Malays, and present the household as the primary site of change. Here the novels develop and describe a 'private' sphere where Malays who previously had no rights begin to exercise their initiative. The concept of social equality which inspires the novelists subverts many of the themes of modern Malay politics.

Self and Society in Southeast Asian Fiction
Self and Society in Southeast Asian Fiction

Author: Thelma B. Kintanar

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9813035099

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The book begins with a brief survey of the development of modern fiction in Southeast Asia. The fiction of five ASEAN countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand - is reviewed to analyze the major patterns in the relationship between the individual and his society as shown in the following themes: the individual and his identities, alienation and exile, social class and the individual, and commitment.

Young and Malay
Young and Malay

Author: Ooi Kee Beng & Wan Hamidi Hamid

Publisher: Gerakbudaya Enterprise

Published:

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9832344646

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INDIVIDUAL experiences, though strongly influenced by collective identities, are in essence unique ones. But in Malaysia, where ethnic identity is overpoweringly applied to constrict popular thought and rationalise government policies, the uniqueness of individuals is ignored and devalued – even by the individuals themselves. Paradoxically, the community that has suffered the political ascription of group identity most acutely and most inescapably is the ascribed majority group, the Malays. In this collection of essays edited by Ooi Kee Beng and Wan Hamidi Hamid, nine young writers – Haris Zuan, Wan Hamidi Hamid, Zairil Khir Johari, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, Altaf Deviyati, Izmil Amri, Syukri Shairi, Raja Ahmad Iskandar and Edry Faizal Eddy Yusof – share their individual memories about growing up in Malaysia, and in some cases debate the racial politics in which they – and all Malaysians – seem inextricably caught. "Though Malays in Malaysia are constitutionally bound to be Muslims, many of the writers do not deny that among their forebears are Chinese, Indians and Europeans who practised Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and what have you. As I read their essays, I feel that they write for me as well. My origins are varied too for I have always prided myself on having Indian, Spanish and Acehnese forebears." — Ariffin Omar, Malaysian Senator

Postcolonial Cinema Studies
Postcolonial Cinema Studies

Author: Sandra Ponzanesi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1136592040

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This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology. Current circumstances of migration and immigration, militarization, economic exploitation, racial and religious conflict, enactments of citizenship, and cultural self-representation have deep roots in colonial/postcolonial/neocolonial histories. Contributors deeply engage the tense asymmetries bequeathed to the contemporary world by the multiple,diverse, and overlapping histories of European, Soviet, U.S., and multi-national imperial ventures. With interdisciplinary expertise, they discover and explore the conceptual temporalities and spatialities of postcoloniality, with an emphasis on the politics of form, the ‘postcolonial aesthetics’ through which filmmakers challenge themselves and their viewers to move beyond national and imperial imaginaries. Contributors include: Jude G. Akudinobi, Kanika Batra, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Shohini Chaudhuri, Julie F. Codell, Sabine Doran, Hamish Ford, Claudia Hoffmann, Anikó Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Mariam B. Lam, Paulo de Medeiros, Sandra Ponzanesi, Richard Rice, Mireille Rosello and Marguerite Waller.

Bahagia Kasihmu
Bahagia Kasihmu

Author: Fatin Nabila

Publisher: Alaf 21

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9831243455

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DIBURU masa silam, Tasnim sentiasa kegelisahan. Kepahitan semalam mendera perasaan. Terus, dia tidak berani mencintai. Jauh sekali membiarkan dirinya dicintai. Dia sentiasa sedar di mana dia berpijak. Di penjuru mana dia berdiri. Kemunculan Zarul, memang tidak diduga. Tanpa sedar, lelaki itu menjadi watak penting dalam hari-harinya. Dia seolah terikat dengan Zarul. Ingin menjauh, tetapi makin dekat pula jadinya. Dalam diam, sedetik rasa mula bertunas dalam jiwanya. “Awak adalah perempuan yang berjaya membuka pintu hati saya. Siapa pun awak sebelum ini, saya tak kisah.Izinkan saya bahagiakan awak.”

Reclaiming Adat
Reclaiming Adat

Author: Gaik Cheng Khoo

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0774841443

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In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an emphasis on sexuality and a return to archaic forms such as magic and traditional healing. Using close textual readings of literature and film, Khoo Gaik Cheng reveals the tensions between gender, modernity, and nation. Khoo weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers. Reclaiming Adat makes an essential contribution to our knowledge of the complexities embedded in modern Malaysian culture, politics, and identity.

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition

Author: Aihwa Ong

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2010-09-03

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1438433565

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In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become an ethnographic classic in the fields of anthropology, labor studies, and gender and globalization studies. Based on anthropological field work in an agricultural district in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, Spirits of Resistance captures a moment of profound transformation, illustrated by the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences in the lives of Malay women during the rapid industrialization associated with Malaysia's rise as a tiger economy. Aihwa Ong's nuanced approach to the Malay women factory workers' experiences of the contradictions of modern globalized capitalism has inspired subsequent generations of feminist ethnographers in their explorations of key questions of power, resistance, femininities, religious community, and social change. With a new critical introduction by anthropologist Carla Freeman, this new edition of Spirits of Resistance continues to offer an exemplary model of sophisticated analysis of culturally based resistance to the ideology, surveillance, and institutional authority of globalized corporate capitalism.

Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures
Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures

Author: Diana Roig-Sanz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-20

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 3319781146

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This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active across linguistic, cultural and geographical borders, occupying strategic positions within large networks and being the carrier of cultural transfer. Many studies on translation and cultural mediation privileged the major metropolis of Paris, London, and New York as centres of cultural production and translation. However, other cities and megacities that are not global centres of culture also feature vibrant translation scenes. This book abandons the focus on ‘innovative’ centres and ‘imitative’ peripheries and follows processes of cultural exchange as they develop. Thus, it analyses the role of cultural mediators as customs officers or smugglers (or both in different proportions) in so-called ‘peripheral’ cultures and offers insights into an under-analysed body of actors and institutions promoting intercultural transfer in often multilingual and less studied venues such as Trieste, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Lima, Lahore, or Cape Town.