Travel and travel narratives are not only important in the study of cross-cultural encounters but also central in the sociopolitical and historical imaginarles and structures of societies …
K Anwar - Malay Literature, 2017 - repository.nie.edu.sg
This article discusses Malay poems, especially as reflected in the syair of the Riau region, which have been classified as history poems. Two syair, Syair Kisah Engku Puteri and Syair …
WJ Sastrawan - The University of Sydney, 2016 - academia.edu
Professional historians have long doubted the value of traditional historical texts from Southeast Asia, because these texts are structured in ways that defy their historiographical …
Table of contents: 1 Introduction/Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied and Derek Heng REFRAMING THE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE 2 From Political Rhetoric to National History …