Pantun Baba Chan : the art and beauty of traditional Baba Malay poetry /
Pantun Baba Chan is a collection of 100 original pantun poems written in Baba Malay over a period of 15 years by Baba Chan Eng Thai, a prominent member of Singapore's vibrant Peranakan community. Chan's poetry celebrates the traditions of his community and a nostalgia for the old ways, ran...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Malay |
| Language Notes: | In Baba Malay with English translations. |
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Rutland, Vermont :
Tuttle Publishing,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Pantun Baba Chan is a collection of 100 original pantun poems written in Baba Malay over a period of 15 years by Baba Chan Eng Thai, a prominent member of Singapore's vibrant Peranakan community. Chan's poetry celebrates the traditions of his community and a nostalgia for the old ways, ranging from favorite foods to rites of passage to commemorations of famous people. The book also includes a hilarious pantun "duel" between the author and G.T. Lye over WhatsApp. The pantun is an oral poetic form with a rich tradition dating back many centuries. Written in Baba Malay, a Creole tongue merging Malay with Hokkien Chinese, these poems express complex emotions in quatrains with an ABAB rhyming scheme. They were extremely popular in prewar Singapore but are now considered a dying art, although a revival is currently underway. |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 139 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780804858373 0804858373 |