The Portrayal of Foreigners in Indonesian and Malay Literatures: Essays on the Ethnic "Other"

This volume, comprising eight closely related articles which were originally presented at the EUROSEAS 2004 conference in Paris, examins the depiction of foreigners in a range of Indonesian and Malay literary works spanning four centuries, from traditional texts in Malay and Javanese to modern Malaysian fiction and a Singaporean novel written in English.