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Malay poetry. --- Malay poetry --- Translations into English.
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The sly wit and silky eroticism of the verse genre known as romantic syair were staple dishes on the Southeast Asian cultural menu, especially in the Malay, Islamic regional centres. Yet very few examples are available in translation for the many readers interested in the genre, and attempts by academics to account for their powers of attraction are even rarer. This book is the authors effort to convey the seductive qualities of the sexiest of the romantic syair , the Poem of Bidasari. Few Malay works have been loved and disseminated to the extent the Syair Bidasari has. It was translated in other languages of the region like Makassarese and Maranao and adapted for the Malay theatre and cinema. Three tasks are attempted in the book: a transliteration into Roman characters of one of the surviving Malay manuscripts of the poem, a translation of that manuscript into English, and an inquiry into the poems virtues. The intertexts drawn upon in the analysis reveal the authors conviction that understanding of traditions of kesenian rakyat (popular arts) such as pantun and the Malay theatre provides the background that allows the text to signify most powerfully.
Malay poetry --- History and criticism --- Translations into English
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Throughout Malay-speaking Southeast Asia, the Malay pantun has long provided a medium for social intercourse between people of varied ethnic backgrounds. One of the most elaborate forms of pantun singing is Dondang Sayang. With a focus on Baba Chinese contributions, Like Tigers around a Piece of Meat traces the history of Dondang Sayang and analyses through texts from Singapore and Malacca how the poets achieve works of profound meaning.
Folk songs, Malay --- Oral tradition --- Chinese --- Quatrains, Malay --- Folk music --- Ethnic music --- Traditional music --- Folklore --- Music --- Malay quatrains --- Malay poetry --- Dondang sayang --- Ethnology --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Malay folk songs --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs.
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