Engaging Modern Brunei: Research on language, literature, and culture

This book explores issues shaping and defining modern Bruneian identity. It addresses the research gap regarding Brunei studies in terms of the language, literature, and culture of Brunei which, with its bilingual education, is uniquely positioned at the intersection of the Malay and western worlds.

The book analyses the linguistic, literary, and cultural modes that provide the backdrop for modern—day instantiations of local identity, as expressed through printed and online materials, fil...