The Literature of Brunei : History, Culture, and Challenges (Hardcover)

Preface; Introduction;?1. The earliest Malay letters from Brunei;?2. Pengiran Indera Mahkota aka Pengiran Shahbandar Mohammad Salleh bin Pengiran Sharmayuda, author of?Syair Rakis?and Brunei’s foremost literary figure;?3.?Syair Rakis?and Nineteenth century Bruneian Sultanate: Prophecy, Reality and Economy;?4. The egg and chicken in Bruneian Malay Society: From folklore to present day food culture;?5.?Burung garuda?and?burung serandit?? A textual enquiry of avian culture in Brunei Darussalam;?6. Bruneian Women’s Writing as an Emergent Minor Literature in English;?7.?Ethnic Oral Literature (Kejhung) of the marginalized Dusunk;?8. The Temporal Mundane in?Anglophone?Chinese Diaspora Writing from Brunei Darussalam;?9. Bruneian drama: Between the local and the global;?10. (Re)governing Translation Industry in Brunei: A Case Study on Creative Writing;?11. A Comparative Analysis of the La Galigo and Syair Awang Semaun;?12. On the Lineage of Contemporary Bruneian Literature;?Glossary;?Index