Literature of Brunei

Ooi Keat Gin is a Professor of the Modern History of Brunei/Borneo at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei and Visiting Professor at the Korean Institute of ASEAN Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Busan, South Korea. With Victor T. King he co-edited Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Brunei (Routledge 2023) and co-authored The Handbook of Southeast Asian Studies: Pioneers and Critical Thinkers, Parts I & II (2024, Part I).Kathrina Mohd Daud is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. She was co-editor of The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines (2017) with Grace V. S. Chin, and her latest novel, The Witch Doctor’s Daughter (Epigram 2022) was longlisted for the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize (EBFP).

• Preface; Introduction; 1. The earliest Malay letters from Brunei; 2. Pengiran Indera Mahkota aka Pengiran Shahbandar Mohammad Salleh bin Pengiran Sharmayuda, author of Syair Rakis and Brunei’s foremost literary figure; 3. Syair Rakis and Nineteenth century Bruneian Sultanate: Prophecy, Reality and Economy; 4. The egg and chicken in Bruneian Malay Society: From folklore to present day food culture; 5. Burung garuda and burung serandit – A textual enquiry of avian culture in Brunei Darussalam; 6. Bruneian Women’s Writing as an Emergent Minor Literature in English; 7. Ethnic Oral Literature (Kèjhung) of the marginalized Dusunk; 8. The Temporal Mundane in Anglophone Chinese Diaspora Writing from Brunei Darussalam; 9. Bruneian drama: Between the local and the global; 10. (Re)governing Translation Industry in Brunei: A Case Study on Creative Writing; 11. A Comparative Analysis of the La Galigo and Syair Awang Semaun; 12. On the Lineage of Contemporary Bruneian Literature; Glossary; Index