Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature (Paperback)

Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years. Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

General

Imprint:	Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	May 2018
Editors:	Ding Choo Ming • Willem Van Der Molen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	229
ISBN-13:	978-981-4786-57-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	981-4786-57-8
Barcode:	9789814786577

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