Salleh Ben Joned: Truth, Beauty, Amok and Belonging
Salleh Ben Joned. Poet. Critic. Dramatist. And legend in his own lifetime. Salleh had a strong sense of the absurd and he playfully challenged taboos on race, religion, language and identity – with brutal honesty. In both English and Malay, he celebrated the mystical, the sensual, the beauty – and terror – of life itself. From Hobart to Kuala Lumpur he pushed beyond conformist boundaries and paid the price. This book shines a spotlight, for the first time, via his poems, prose and relationships, on the world view of Salleh Ben Joned.
“Salleh Ben Joned will be remembered forever as one of the finest minds ever to grace the Malaysian literary scene.” – Johan Jaaffar
“Salleh was a rebel with a cause … by speaking truth to power, by questioning the given shape of things … he offered a vision of another possible world, of a genuinely multicultural society, of a living culture that grows naturally.” – Gareth Richards
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Salleh Ben Joned. Poet. Critic. Dramatist. And legend in his own lifetime. Salleh had a strong sense of the absurd and he playfully challenged taboos on race, religion, language and identity – with brutal honesty. In both English and Malay, he celebrated the mystical, the sensual, the beauty – and terror – of life itself. From Hobart to Kuala Lumpur he pushed beyond conformist boundaries and paid the price. This book shines a spotlight, for the first time, via his poems, prose and relationships, on the world view of Salleh Ben Joned.
“Salleh Ben Joned will be remembered forever as one of the finest minds ever to grace the Malaysian literary scene.” – Johan Jaaffar
“Salleh was a rebel with a cause … by speaking truth to power, by questioning the given shape of things … he offered a vision of another possible world, of a genuinely multicultural society, of a living culture that grows naturally.” – Gareth Richards
Publisher: Maya Press
Paperback
2023
ISBN: 9789832737728
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