“The City & The Countryside In South East Asian Literature in Translation”
Reading List
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Braginsky, V.I. Unity in the diversity of traditional South East Asian Literatures. An
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Budianta, Eka, ‘Poetry Reading: an Indonesian Perspective.’ Indonesia Circle (54), 19-28. 1991
Chambert-Loir, Henri. (ed.). La Littérature Indonésienne - une introduction. Paris: Archipel. (Cahier
d'Archipel, 22.) 1994.
Chitakasem, Manas, 'The Development of Social and Political Consciousness in Thai Short Stories' in
Cordell, Helen and Davidson, H.C.S (eds.), The Short Story in South East Asia: Aspects of a Genre,
London: The School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982.
Chudori, Leila ‘The Purification of Sita’ in McGlynn, John (ed.), Menagerie 1. Jakarta: The Lontar
Foundation, p. 93-100. 1992.
Damono, Sapardi Djoko. ‘Social involvement in Indonesian literature.’ Prisma, 29, 3-10. 1983.
Davidson, J.H.C.S. and Helen Cordell (eds.), The Short Story in South East Asia:
Aspects of a Genre. London. School of Oriental and African Studies; 1982.
Dingwall, Alistair, (ed.), Traveller's Literary Companion, South-east Asia. Brighton:
In Print Publishing; 1994.
Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind. New York: W. Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990.
Durand, M., Nguyen Tran Huan. An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1985.
Eagleton, Terry, Literary Theory. An Introduction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell; 1989.
Foulcher, Keith, ‘Bumi Manusia and Anak semua bangsa: Pramoedya Ananta Toer enters the 1980s.’
Indonesia, 32, 1-15. 1981.
Foulcher, Keith, ‘The early fiction of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. 1946-1949.’ In Roskies, D. M. (ed.).
Text/Politics in island Southeast Asia. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, 191-220. (Southeast Asia Series,
91), 1993.
Foulcher, Keith, ‘Post-Modernism or the question of history: some trends in Indonesian fiction since 1965.’
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Foulcher, Keith. Literature, cultural politics, and the Indonesian revolution. In Roskies, D. M. (ed.).
Text/Politics in island Southeast Asia. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, 221-56. (Southeast Asia Series, 91)
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Harrison, Rachel. ‘Introduction’ in Sidaoru'ang. A Drop of Glass. Bangkok. Duang Kamol, 1994.
Harrison, Rachel. ‘‘The son of a Javanese’: translating and positioning Luuk chaai khon chawaa in a
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Hatim, B. and Mason, I. Discourse and the Translator. London and New York:
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Healy, Dana. Literature in transition: an overview of Vietnamese writing of the Renovation
Period. (In: Smyth, David, (ed.), The Canon in Southeast Asian Literatures. Richmond:
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Herbert, Patricia and Milner, Anthony, South-East Asia. Languages and Literatures: a
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Huynh Sanh Thong, An Anthology of Vietnamese poems (from the eleventh through the
twentieth centuries). Edited and translated by Huynh Sanh Thong, New Haven and London:
Yale University Press; 1996.
Huynh Sanh Thong, ed. & trl. The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1983.
Huynh Sanh Thong. Main trends of Vietnamese Literature between the two world wars.
Vietnam Forum. 1984; 39: 99-125.
Idrus. ‘Kota-Harmoni’. Translated by T. J. Hudak. Indonesia, 45, 105-108. 1988.
Ismail Hussein. 1974. 'Modern Malay Literature'. In P.-B. Lafont and Denys Lombard
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Jamieson, Neil. 1992. ‘Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of
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Jamieson, N., Understanding Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California; 1993.
Johns, Anthony H.. 1979. Cultural Options and the Role of Tradition. Canberra:
Australian National University Press.
Kepner, Susan. The Lioness in Bloom. Modern Thai Fiction about Women. Berkeley.
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Khamsing Srinawk, The Politician and other Stories. Domnern Garden (transl.). Kuala Lumpur: Oxford
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Kintanar, Thelma B.. 1988. Self and Society in Southeast Asian Fiction. Singapore:
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Lat. Kampung Boy. New York: First Second, 2006. [New US edition, in the library. Also a
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Lat. Town Boy. New York: First Second, 2007. [New US edition, in the library. Also a copy
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Lat. Mat Som. Adibah Amin, trans. Kuala Lumpur: Kampung Boy, 1990
Le Luu. A Time Far Past. Amherst: Universtity of Massachusetts Press; 1997.
Le Minh Khue. The Stars, the Earth, the River. : Curbstone Press; 1997.
Linh Dinh ed. Night Again (Contemporary fiction from Vietnam). New York: Seven Stories
Press, 1996.
Lockhart, G. Nguyen Huy Thiep and the Faces of Vietnamese Literature. In: Lockhart, G. trl.
The General Retires and Other Stories. Singapore : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Lockhart , Greg & Monique (transl.) The Light of the capital. Three modern Vietnamese
classics. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press,1996.
Lubis, Mochtar. 1968. A Road With No End. Translated by A. H. Johns. London: Hutchinson.
Lubis, Mochtar. Tiger! Translated by Florence Lamoureux. Singapore: Select Books. 1991.
Lubis, Mochtar. Twilight in Jakarta. Translated by Claire Holt. London: 1963.
Chitakasem, Manas, 'The Development of Social and Political Consciousness in Thai
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South East Asia: Aspects of a Genre, London: The School of Oriental and
African Studies, 1982.
Manas Chitakasem (ed.), Thai Literary Traditions. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn
University Press; 1995.
McGlynn, John H., and Kratz, E. Ulrich. (editors & translators.). Walking westward in the morning.
Introduction by Muhammad Haji Salleh. Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar in collaboration with SOAS. 14, 32, 42,
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Milne, P M: Selected short stories of Thein Pe Myint: translated, with introduction
and commentary †. London, SOAS MPhil thesis, 1971.
Minamida, Midori: 'On anti-fascist writings of Thein Pe Myint.' In Burma and Japan:
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Moi, Toril. Sexual, Textual Politics. London: Routledge; 1991.
Muhammad Haji Salleh, ‘Oral Elements in Contemporary Indonesian Poetry. Indonesia Circle (54), 3-18.
1991
Muhammad Haji Salleh, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Malay-Indonesian Poetry. Kuala Lumpur:
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1977.
Newmark, Peter. Approaches to Translation. Oxford: Pergamon; 1981
Nguyen Cong Hoan. Canton chief Ba loses his slippers; selected short stories. Hanoi: Foreign
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Nguyen Dinh Hoa. Vietnamese literature: a brief survey. San Diego, CA : San Diego State
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Nguyen Huy Thiep. The General Retires and Other Stories. Lockhart, G. (trl.), Singapore:
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Nguyen Khac Vien, Huu Ngoc. Vietnamese Literature. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing
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Nhat Linh, Breaking off. (extract from this novel can be found in Jamieson, N. Understanding
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Paitoon Thanya. The So-So War. Tom Glass (transl.). Bangkok. Klum Nakhon Press;
1997.
Paitoon Thanya. Paradise Waves. Tom Glass (transl.) Bangkok. Klum Nakhon Press;
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Pham Thi Hoai. The Crystal Messenger. South Melbourne, Victoria: Hyland House, 1997.
Phillips, Herbert P. Modern Thai Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press;
1987.
Pirie, David B., How to Write Critical Essays. London and New York: Routledge;
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Rendra. The Struggle of the Naga Tribe. Translated by Max Lane. St Lucia, Q.: University of Queensland
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Samad Ismail, A. ‘Malay Literature: political and social implications.’ Malay Literature, 5 (1), 52-63.1992.
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