Emergency and confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia's, waged againts the armed forces of the Malayan communist party between 1948 and 1960, and in confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966.
This book, the first comprehensive survey of traditional Malay literature in English since 1939, embraces more than a millennium of Malay letters from the vague data of the seventh century up to the early beginnings of the modern literatures in the late nineteenth century. The long path trodden by traditional Malay literature is viewed in historical and theoretical perspectives as a development…