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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463459503321

Titolo

Fiction and faction in the Malay world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mohamad Rashidi Pakri and Arndt Graf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

ISBN

1-4438-4651-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrafArndt

PakriMohamad Rashidi

Disciplina

809.98

Soggetti

Malay literature - History and criticism

Travelers' writings - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Malaya In literature Congresses

Malaya Description and travel Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at a conference held November 2010, Goethe-University of Frankfurt.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and "faction" (writing that portrays real people or events in a dramatised manner) during their sojourn - regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields withi...