EDUTRACK N605124 V1 EDUTRACK N562289 V2 LMERC Fiction

Fiction & non-fiction
resources about
Malaysia
P-12
Resources about Malaysia from the Languages & Multicultural Education Resource Centre and online
Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre 150 Palmerston St, Carlton 3053 PH: 9349 1418 EMAIL: [email protected]
Nonfiction
Year
Growing up
Asian in
Australia
Pung, Alice
ed.
2008
Culture in
Malaysia
Guile,
Melaine
2005
For
mat
Front cover
Abstract
A collection of essays, stories, poems, graphic stories relating the multi layered
histories and identities of some Australians with an Asian background. One of
the contributors Sim Chen is a poet and general practitioner who writes about:
travelling in Vietnam, his feelings about his home country of Malaysia, speaking
halting Mandarin and layered identities. Sim Chen’s first collection of poetry City
of Skin was published in 2001.
Book
Author
Book
Title
A general information book written for upper primary to mid-secondary level.
Chapters include Culture in Malaysia, Traditions and customs, Minority groups,
Costume and clothing, Food, Performing arts, Folklore and literature, Film and
television, Arts and crafts. Glossary included giving further explanation or
definition about terms used throughout the book. Contemporary and traditional
culture is highlighted. The book includes accessible analysis of history, cultural
diversity, politics and leadership in contemporary Malaysia. Part of the Culture
in… series.
Fiction and non-fiction from and about Malaysia from LMERC
Year
Level
10-12
5-9
Page 1
Einspruch,
Andrew
2007
Book
Malaysia and
Brunei.
Countries of South-East Asia: Malaysia and Brunei, Reed International Books,
Port Melbourne
5-9
Brief guide to the history and customs of both Malaysia and the neighbouring
state of Brunei.
2004
Exciting
Malaysia.
Singapore
Wong, S.L.
2000
2003
5-9
Full colour photographic ‘album’ covering all Malaysia’s major cities and islands.
Also contains maps and plans of all the main cities.
4-9
Large hardback
book
Malysia: portrait Moore, W
of a nation
A pictorial tour of Malaysia’s oldest city, exploring its history and culture. Many
colour photographs. Timeline, maps, further information including websites for
many of the attractions and eating places described in the book. Chapters on:
cuisine, arts crafts and architecture, festivals and holidays.
Large hardback book
Berbar, H
Book
Journey through
Malacca
Fiction and non-fiction from and about Malaysia from LMERC
Chapters: Selamat dating!, People, Religion, Nature, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and
Langkawi, Malacca, East Coast, Sabah and Sarawak, Wonders of the sea.
An illustrated history of Malaysia, with over 140 colour photographs
5-12
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MalaysiaAustralia
Foundation
and
AustraliaMalaysia
Society
1997
Various
2011
MToday
News Sdn.
Bhd
K. Kabilan
ed.
2011
World
Music
Network
2006
Large hardback
book
Visions: a
multicultural
exploration of
Malaysia and
Australia
A photo essay highlighting Multicultural societies in Australia and Malaysia.
Portraits of urban and rural Malaysians and Australians as they go about daily
life. Scenes depict traditional and contemporary lifestyles.
5-12
http://www.world-newspapers.com/malaysia.html For a list of online journals,
magazines and newspapers
9-12
Online resources
Free Malaysia
today
Website
World
Newspapers.com
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/ Bilingual news portal with blogs,
discussions about contemporary politics and life in Malaysia.
‘Free Malaysia Today aim to give readers news that is different from the rest of
the pack. Our goal is to get hold of truth and drag it out for all to see. In pursuit
of truth, we spare no effort to get our facts right, our acts correct, our mission
going.’ From About Us page of website.
Music
Audio CD
The Rough guide
to the music of
Malaysia
Fiction and non-fiction from and about Malaysia from LMERC
15 tracks demonstrate the diversity of music styles heard in contemporary music in
Malaysia. Arabic influenced pop, bollywood sounds, traditional. Artists include
Mari Menari, Noraniza Idris, Liza Hanim and Siti Nurhaliza.
P12
Page 3
Glendinning
,A&
Holmes, J
2004
2011
The Asia Literary
Review
Kampung Boy
Lat
2009
5-9
Provides an insight into the history, economy and society of Malaysia, considers its
future, and contains interviews with a wide range of people from across Malay
society.
Topics include: the changing population, changes at home, women’s roles,
education, landscape and environment, natural resources, religion, changes at
work. Glossary and links to suggested online resources.
710
Malaysian poets, writers and artists
Poems from various Malaysian poets (back issues available to view for free)
http://www.asialiteraryreview.com/article.web.ViewArticles.do?articleCountryId=
18
1012
Graphic novel
The changing
face of Malaysia
Aimed at students in the middle years of school, this book deals with a range of
environmental issues from across Asia. Contains four ‘case studies’ that deal with
Malaysian issues such as deforestation and wildlife preservation.
Electronic
&hardcopy
2003
Book
Poultney, T
Book
Environments:
Asia Pacific
A gentle and humorous retelling through words and pictures of the author’s life
growing up in a rural tin mining village in Malaysia. Lat describes daily life and
some of the rituals associated with birth, growing up as a Muslim and going to
school. A really accessible introduction to an aspect of Malaysian culture and
lifestyle mid 20c. Town boy is the companion book which documents the author’s
life when he leaves the village for school in a bigger regional town at the age of 10.
Suitable for middle years to adult.
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Fiction
Fiction and non-fiction from and about Malaysia from LMERC
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The gift of rain
Tan Twan
Eng
2007
Evening is the
whole day
Samarasan,
Preeta
2008
Hardcover book of nine traditional children’s stories from Malaysia, with
illustrations. Stories include ‘The dragon of Kinabalu’ and ‘Pak Pandir, the village
fool’.
P-4
First person narrative from the perspective of an Anglo-Chinese Malayan man now
in his 50’s but describing his youth just prior to WWII. Through rich descriptive
language the author weaves a multilayered political and multi cultural history of
the region. The politically and emotionally charged events leading up to the second
world war enables the author to explore issues such as: loyalty & divided loyalty, a
sense of duty (positive and negative), intercultural understanding and
misunderstanding, shared humanity, pacifism and militarism and the effect of
invasions and colonisation on Malaysia and the region. Extracts could be used to
explore Malaysian history and multiculturalism. The book contains 3 descriptions
of Japanese ritualised suicide or beheading which may make the book unsuitable
for students.
The opening scene of this novel beautifully describes the physical and climatic
features of Malaysia. ‘There is, stretching delicate as a bird’s head from the thin
neck of the Kra Isthmus, a land that makes up half of the country called Malaysia.
Where it dips its beak into the South china Sea, Singapore hovers like a bubble
escaped from its throat. The bird’s head is a springless, summerless autumnless
winterless land. …[each day is] hot, damp, bright, bursting with tropical life,
conducive to endless tea breaks and mad, jostling, honking rushes through town to
get home before the afternoon downpour.’p1. The politics of cultural and class
divisions and discriminations have consequences for a poor young women from a
Tamil background employed to work for a upper class Malaysian family of Indian
background. Again, extracts could be used effectively to explore the tensions and
or cross- overs between the dominant cultures in Malaysia. Set in post war
Malaysia up to the 1980’s.
1012
Book
2004
Book
Lyons, Kay
Book
Malaysian
Children’s
Favourite
Stories. Boston.
Tuttle.
Fiction and non-fiction from and about Malaysia from LMERC
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2005
Voices nearby:
an anthology of
Asia-Pacific
writing.
Grover,
Paul, ed
1997
Book
Aw, Tash
Book
The Harmony
Silk Factory
Another novel which examines cross cultural tensions under extreme pressure in
the lead up to the Japanese invasion of Malaysia during WWII and the eventual
withdrawal of the British. The effects of British colonialism and post colonial
society form the backdrop to the narrative. This story is told in three parts, from
the point of view of three characters. The characters reflect on their relationship
with the main character Johnny Lim, a mysterious and sometimes brilliant but
corrupt self-made businessman who rises from the poverty and hardship of the tin
mine villages of Malaysia to become an influential and wealthy textile merchant.
Similarly to The gift of rain the characters’ relationship with a very cultured and
influential Japanese man living in Malaysia prior to the war becomes more
dangerous and suspect as the threat of invasion becomes a reality.
This anthology contains three Malaysian items: a short story extract by K.S.
Maniam, an extract from the novel’ The Crocodile fury’ by Beth Yap, and a short
story by Lee Lok Kiang.
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