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Boria: From Passion Play to Malay-Jawi Peranakan Parody

Boria: From Passion Play to Malay-Jawi Peranakan Parody
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Boria: From Passion Play to Malay-Jawi Peranakan Parody

Wazir Jahan Karim
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With a history dating several thousand years, from the ta'ziyeh Persian passion play to Indian and Malayan street celebrations during the month of Muharram, the boria in Penang has survived critics' trials to become a vibrant Malay-Jawi Peranakan parody theatre - a modern-day vaudeville, combining skits, dance, music and song, to reflect on the vices and virtues of urban Muslim society. Its narrative, lyrics, choreography and costumes express comic representations of colonial and postcolonial life while fostering unity among urban Muslim communities, caught at the crossroads between tradition and modernity. Secular in its symbolic representations but spiritual in essence, it is the only known surviving Malay-Jawi Peranakan parody theatre in Malaysia.

This book provides fascinating insights into this unique self-critical representation of political culture and its survival strategies over centuries of debate, if indeed Muslims should be engaged in a song and dance over conflicts in faith, culture and tradition. It also provides a historical background to the cultural landscape in which such forms of expression developed. A must for anyone wishing to understand this unique part of Penang's multicultural heritage.

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344pp, 228 x 153 x 23mm, 645gm
RM70.00
Genre: Non-fiction
Format:
Softcover
Publisher:
Pelanduk Publications 2018
ISBN:
978-967-494-003-4

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