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BBL 4306 LITERATURE OF MALAYSIA

BBL 4306 LITERATURE OF MALAYSIA. LITERATURE of MALAYSIA. Lecturer/Instructor. Dr. Ida Baizura Bahar Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication Email: idabb@upm.edu.my. Course Reference. REQUIRED READINGS AND MATERIALS: (See attached course outline) Novels Short Stories Poetry

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BBL 4306 LITERATURE OF MALAYSIA

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  1. BBL 4306LITERATURE OF MALAYSIA LITERATURE of MALAYSIA

  2. Lecturer/Instructor • Dr. Ida BaizuraBahar Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication • Email: idabb@upm.edu.my

  3. Course Reference • REQUIRED READINGS AND MATERIALS: • (See attached course outline) • Novels • Short Stories • Poetry • Drama • Autobiography

  4. You are responsible for the following: • Test • Assignments • Final Examination

  5. MAJOR TOPICS FOR BBL 4306 • Overview of Malaysian Literature in English • Colonial vs Postcolonial Condition • Language, Literature, Nation • Multiculturalism • The Language of MLIE • Diasporic and non-diasporic writers • Issues of identity • Personal narratives • The Role of MLIE

  6. Introduction to the course Course synopsis (see handout) This course covers an overview of literary Malaysian writers in different genres, and in-depth understanding of selected texts.

  7. Topic 1 • OVERVIEW OF MALAYSIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH • Introducing Malaysian Literature in English • What is MLIE? New Literatures in English? Commonwealth Literature in English? • How does Quayum define MLIE? (refer to reading) • The status and role of the English language in Malaysia, MLIE as ‘sectional literature’ • How does MLIE fit into the bigger Malaysian literature? • Can translated works be accepted within MLIE?

  8. Topic 1 • MLIE’s achievements • Who are the older generation of writers? • Who are the younger generation of writers? • MLIE’s challenges • What are the challenges faced by MLIE? • MLIE’s prospects and future • What are the prospects and future of MLIE?

  9. Topic 2 Colonial vs. Postcolonial Condition: Resisting or Reconciling? (reading: NgugiwaThiong’o’s “A View of Our Own: Ethnocentric Perspectives in Literature”) • How would you define the post-colonial world, or the post-colonial condition? • What does the author mean by ‘decolonising the means of imagination’? • What should be the most ‘democratic’ art form? • What is meant by ‘linguistic hegemony’? • How has the African mind been imprisoned? • “… the collective peasant has become a foreigner in his own country.” Discuss this statement, in relation to our own Malaysian context.

  10. Topic 3 • Language, Literature, Nation • National language and national literature • Ethnic or Sectional literature

  11. Topic 4 Multiculturalism • What does it mean to be Malaysian? • How is ‘Malaysianness’ captured in MLIE? • Should the use of Malaysian English be part of what is defined as MLIE? • How does the cultural landscape of a story help make it Malaysian? he state of the nation in terms of ethnicity, race, gender & class.

  12. Topic 5The Language of MLIE -Narrative style-Malaysianness in MLIE

  13. Topic 6 Diasporic and non-diasporic writers -writing in English from home -writing away from home

  14. Topic 7 • Issues of identity: • -Hybridity • -Urban and Rural • -Tradition and Modernity

  15. Topic 8 • Personal Narratives: • Nostalgia and history • Memoirs and biographies

  16. Topic 9 • The Role of MLIE: • Identity, Race, Gender and Class • Racial identification, integration • Women’s positions and • Cultural stereotypes • Economic status and ethnicity

  17. Topic 10 • Critical Works • What has been the focal points/views in the analysis of MLIE • Who are major critics of MLIE?

  18. Assignment and Examination Course work 70% Final Exam 30%

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