Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay Literature / / Choo Ming Ding, Willem van der Molen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS eBook Package 2018
• TeilnehmendeR: Ding, Choo Ming,; van der Molen, Willem,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years. Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. Introduction / van der Molen, Willem -- 2. The Rāmāyaṇa in Java and Bali: Chapters from its Literary History / Robson, Stuart -- 3. Abimanyu Gugur: The Death of Abimanyu in Classical and Modern Indonesian and Malay Literature / Aveling, Harry -- 4. Drona's Betrayal and Bima's Brutality: Javanaiserie in Malay Culture / Arps, Bernard -- 5. Ramayana and Mahabharata in Hikayat Misa Taman Jayeng Kusuma / Koster, Gijs L. -- 6. The death of Śalya Balinese Textual and Iconographic Representations of the Kakawin Bha¯ratayuddha / Creese, Helen -- 7. The Illustrated Ast· abrata In Pakualaman Manuscript Art / Wieringa, Edwin P. -- Index