Seeking Hang Tuah
Hang Tuah is a culture hero without compare, in Malay Literature and beyond. For more than 500 years he has been present in the oral words, pages of the Hikayat, traditional theatre, poetry, comics and critical discourses, for within his person, he combines the social and moral ideals of Malaysians...
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Kuala Lumpur
University of Malaya Press
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Journeying with Hang Tuah
- Hang Tuah in the sea of oral Malay narratives
- The Epic of Hang Tuah : a hero beyond boundaries and reigns
- Central values of the Malay hero : Hang Tuah
- The traditional and contemporary Malay literary hero
- Romping around narratives space : making epical room for Hang Tuah
- Section 2: Translating the Genius
- Translating Hikayat Hang Tuah
- Lessons from a double life
- Approaches to the genius of the literary past