{"product_id":"bidasari-9789067182249","title":"Bidasari","description":"The sly wit and silky eroticism of the verse genre known as romantic \u003ci\u003esyair\u003c\/i\u003e were staple dishes on the Southeast Asian cultural menu, especially in the Malay, Islamic regional centres. Yet very few examples are available in translation for the many readers interested in the genre, and attempts by academics to account for their powers of attraction are even rarer. This book is the author’s effort to convey the seductive qualities of the sexiest of the romantic \u003ci\u003esyair\u003c\/i\u003e, the ‘Poem of Bidasari’. \nFew Malay works have been loved and disseminated to the extent the \u003ci\u003eSyair Bidasari\u003c\/i\u003e has. It was translated in other languages of the region like Makassarese and Maranao and adapted for the Malay theatre and cinema.\u003cbr\u003e\nThree tasks are attempted in the book: a transliteration into Roman characters of one of the surviving Malay manuscripts of the poem, a translation of that manuscript into English, and an inquiry into the poem’s virtues. The intertexts drawn upon in the analysis reveal the author’s conviction that understanding of traditions of \u003ci\u003ekesenian rakyat\u003c\/i\u003e (popular arts) such as \u003ci\u003epantun\u003c\/i\u003e and the Malay theatre provides the background that allows the text to signify most powerfully.","brand":"Julian Millie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268747669755,"sku":"9789067182249","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4fd3198f-d15d-4adf-890d-ac4f4dad58aa.jpg?v=1774710515","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/bidasari-9789067182249","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}