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Singapore literature and culture : current directions in local and global contexts /
Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. We who have no country but our century : Wong May, Singapore-stateless poet / Angus Whitehead
- 2. 'A kind of pursuit' : on Boey Kim Cheng's poetry / Shirley Chew
- 3. A luxury we cannot afford : the poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng / Eddie Tay
- 4. A city without a nation : personal and collective memory in the fiction of Gopal Baratham / Steve Clark
- 5. The social life of genres : short stories as a Singapore form / Philip Holden
- 6. Of language and beyond : Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, firstfruits, and Singapore literature / E.K. Tan
- 7. Singaporean literature and global modernism : Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa / Weihsin Gui
- 8. 'Leeet lor' : Singapore plays as drama / Paul Rae
- 9. Super-diversity and its implications in two Singapore texts / Wai-Chew Sim
- 10. Strangers, surrogates, lovers : foreign domestic workers in contemporary Singapore texts / Joanne Leow
- 11. In praise of failed men (and the woman writer) : gender politics in the Singapore novel / Angelia Poon
- 12. Singapore as strategic location : setting and positionality in Goh Poh Seng's If we dream too long and Lydia Kwa's Pulse / Cheryl Narumi Naruse
- 13. Burning in your hands : Singapore's queer literary tradition / Yi -Sheng Ng.