Southeast Asian Epics

So I was asked to create a proper course outline for my project. It's as follows: HL7888 Directed Study in Literature: The Southeast Asian Epic August Semester 2018 Advisor: Boey Kim Cheng Student: Ng Yi-Sheng Description Southeast Asia was transformed by European colonialism: a historical phenomenon that fundamentally altered our politics, economics and society. As such, it is supremely difficult for a 21 st century writer to gain a holistic sense of the region’s culture before the invasions of Albuquerque in Melaka/Malacca, Legazpi in Maynila/Manila, the VOC in Jayakarta/Batavia/Jakarta. This study project is in effect a crash course in decolonization: my attempt to counter my Eurocentric and Sinocentric literary education through reading of a pre-modern Southeast Asian canon. I shall focus on narratives by Southeast Asians about Southeast Asians, composed in the classical tradition in the pre-colonial or early colonial eras; retellings of Hindu, Per...

This is my attempt at a more complete bibliography! I won't manage to read everything, but I imagine folks online will find this a valuable resource. (I may have made mistakes here and there.) Malay Peninsula & Singapore: Undang-undang Melaka = The laws of Melaka / by Liaw Yock Fang, c. 1400s Melaka RCLOS, Level 11, 340.09595141 LIA -[LYF], 211 pages Sejarah Melayu / Sulalatus al-Salatin, by Tun Seri Lanang, c. 1612, trans CC Brown Singapore, Melaka Level 11, 959.5 SEJ, 273 pages Hikayat Hang Tuah / The Epic of Hang Tuah, c. 1700, trans Muhammad Haji Salleh Melaka Level 11, 398.2209595 HIK, 600 pages, also available for lending The Epic of Bidasari, c. 1750, trans Chauncey C. Starkweather Indrapura / Pahang Level 8, 899.2808 EPI, also for lending, 208 pages Bidasari : jewel of Malay Muslim culture / edited by Julian Millie. Indrapura / Pahang Level 8, 899.281 SYA...