Cargando…
Colony, nation, and globalisation : not at home in Singaporean and Malaysian literature /
This work explores colonial and postcolonial literatures of Singapore and Malaysia. It traces in them a history of anxiety that attends to the notion of home. The premise is that home is a physical space as well as a symbolic terrain invested with social, political, and cultural meanings.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2011.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Colony: British Malaya
- ch. 1 Amok and Arrogation: Frank Swettenham's `Real Malay'
- ch. 2 Discourses of Difference: Isabella Bird, Emily Innes, and Florence Caddy
- ch. 3 Exhaustion of Colonial Romance: W. Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess
- II. Nations: Malaya, Singapore, and Malaysia
- ch. 4 `There is no way out but through': Lee Kok Liang and the Malayan Nation
- ch. 5 Nationalism and Literature: Two Poems Concerning the Merlion and Karim Raslan's "Heroes"
- ch. 6 Irresponsibility and Commitment: Philip Jeyaretnam's Abraham's Promise and Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun
- III. Globalisation: Home is Elsewhere
- ch. 7 Post-Diasporic Imagination: The Novels of K.S. Maniam
- ch. 8 Two Singaporeans in America: Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc. and Simon Tay's Alien Asian
- ch. 9 Writing Back Home: Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory, Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue, and Lau Siew Mei's Playing Madame Mao.