Echo Across the Ocean- Selected Prose Of Hamzah Hussin and The House Of Earth Trilogy By Pearl S. Buck
(Gema Merentas Lautan: Prosa Terpilih Hamzah Hussin dan Trilogi The House of Earth oleh Pearl S. Buck)
Abstract
This paper focuses on the issue of external contacts in early modern Malay literature in the 20th century. It applies historical and comparative methods of research to three renowned novels by the Malay author, Hamzah Hussin, written between 1951 and 1956. This paper aims to trace their possible connection with the famed The House of Earth trilogy (1931-1935) by the American Nobel Prize Laureate, Pearl S. Buck. The results of analysis demonstrate notable correspondences between the respective novels of Hamzah Hussin and Pearl S. Buck on the level of issues raised and storyline. Both sets of novels also share the same central image of house/home, which provides the core development of plot. Additionally, the women characters are found to share commonalities in both sets of novels. It is hoped that this paper prompts future studies on the Occidental influences in Malay authors and literature.
Keywords: Malay literature, American prose, novel, Hamzah Hussin, Pearl S. Buck, literary contacts, Occidental influence
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Hamzah. (1997). Diwawancarai Haji Abd. Rahman Mohd. Yusof in Ahmad Kamal Abdullah, Zaiton Ajamain (Penyelenggara). Jambak 3. Proses kreatif pengarang Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Hamzah. (1998). Novel-novel Hamzah. Diselenggarakan oleh S. Othman Kelantan. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Kukushkina Ye.S. (2017). "Podobno sochineniyam Shekspira": u istokov dramaturgii Malayzii ("Just like Shakespeare's oevre": at the onset of Malaysian dramaturgy) in Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii I praktiki. Tambov: Gramota, 3:69, Part 2, 43-39.
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Othman Kelantan, S. (1998). Kata Pengantar. In S. Othman Kelantan (Ed.) Novel-novel Hamzah. Diselenggarakan oleh . Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Roff, William. (1974). The Mystery of the First Malay Novel (and who was Rokambul?) In Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 130, 350-464.
Roff, William R. (1994). The origins of Malay nationalism. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
Sejarah Kesusasteraan Melayu. Siri Lestari Sastera. (2006). Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Shaffer, Robert. (2016). Feminist Fiction in "Non-Feminist" Age: Pearl S.Buck on Asian and American Women, 1930-1963. The Journal of Transnational American Studies, 7(1), 1-26.
Siti Meriam Yaacob. (2010). Wanita dalam karya Hamzah Hussin dari perspektif kritikan feminis. Pulau Pinang: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. 207 ms.
Tan Chin Kwang. (1986). The "Missing Link" in modern Malay literary history: A study of the influence of social and educational backgrounds on literary development. Archipel, 31(1), 97-115.
Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir. (1994). OT Dussek and Modern Malay Literature in Tenggara. Journal of Southeast Asian Literature, 33, 68-78.
Warnk, Holger. (2007). The Role of Translations in the Development of Modern Malay Literature, 1850-1950. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 80, 1:292, 91-113.
Warnk, Holger. (2011). Faust does Nusantara. In J. van der Putten & M. Kilcline Cody (Eds.). Lost times and untold tales from the Malay world. Singapore: NUS Press.
Winstedt R.O. (1969). A history of classical Malay literature. Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press.
Published
2019-06-03
How to Cite
KUKUSHKINA, Evgeniya S.
Echo Across the Ocean- Selected Prose Of Hamzah Hussin and The House Of Earth Trilogy By Pearl S. Buck.
Malay Literature, [S.l.], v. 32, n. 1, p. 93-115, june 2019.
ISSN 2682-8030.
Available at: <https://jurnal.dbp.my/index.php/MalayLiterature/article/view/5382>. Date accessed: 29 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.37052/ml.32(1)no5.
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