Rumah An Ode to the Malay House

• Main Author: Effendy, Tenas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Penang, Malaysia Areca Books, Penang, Malaysia 2014
• Edition: Print book : Poetry : English
• Subjects: Malays (Asian people) > Dwellings > Poetry; Malays (Asian people) > Social life and customs > Poetry; Architecture, Domestic > Malay Peninsula > Poetry
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"Rumah is a collection of old Riau⁰́₃Malay rhymed sayings originally gathered and published by Tenas Effendy. Referred to in Malay literature as "Ungkapan," these eloquent stanzas depict the Malay house as a metaphor for the passage of life, the responsibilities of parenthood, the soc...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Lat
• Preface / Ken Yeang
• Introduction
• The poet
• Rumah : an ode to the Malay House
• Glossary
• The traditional Riau-Malay House
• Bibliography
• Credits.