A Full Hearing: Orality and Literacy in the Malay World
A fascinating study of the effect on Malay peoples of having their traditional oral culture supplanted by a written one. It focuses on the relationships between the oral and written traditions in Malay discourse. Neither has been independent of the other since the advent of writing in the Malay world, for while writing has displaced much of oral tradition and changed much of what has survived, oral characteristics persisted in written literature during the period of manuscript culture, and even in the present age of print and mass literacy. Amin Sweeney argues that literacy has not completely replaced oral traditions in the Malay culture and, more importantly, that it should not do so. He advocates that the orality of Malay culture still be given a ‘full hearing’ to allow Malay culture to continue to evolve in its own distinct way.
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A fascinating study of the effect on Malay peoples of having their traditional oral culture supplanted by a written one. It focuses on the relationships between the oral and written traditions in Malay discourse. Neither has been independent of the other since the advent of writing in the Malay world, for while writing has displaced much of oral tradition and changed much of what has survived, oral characteristics persisted in written literature during the period of manuscript culture, and even in the present age of print and mass literacy. Amin Sweeney argues that literacy has not completely replaced oral traditions in the Malay culture and, more importantly, that it should not do so. He advocates that the orality of Malay culture still be given a ‘full hearing’ to allow Malay culture to continue to evolve in its own distinct way.
Publisher: University of California Press
Hardback
1987
ISBN: 9780520059108
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