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      Singapore Literature and Culture book

      Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

      Singapore Literature and Culture

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      Singapore Literature and Culture book

      Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts
      Edited ByAngelia Poon, Angus Whitehead
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 7 March 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315307756
      Pages 310
      eBook ISBN 9781315307756
      Subjects Area Studies, Language & Literature
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      Poon, A., & Whitehead, A. (Eds.). (2017). Singapore Literature and Culture: Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315307756

      ABSTRACT

      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 brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it more closely within literary developments worldwide. Drawing upon postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays unearth and introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their specific Singaporean local-historical contexts while also engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. Singaporean writers are producing work informed by debates and trends in queer studies, feminism, multiculturalism and social justice -- work which urgently calls for scholarly engagement. This groundbreaking collection of essays aims to set new directions for further scholarship in this exciting and various body of writing from a place that, despite being just a small ‘red dot’ on the global map, has much to say to scholars and students worldwide interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, as well as literary form and content. This book brings Singapore literature and literary criticism into greater global legibility and charts pathways for future developments.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |18 pages

      Introduction

      Singapore Literature in English
      ByAngelia Poon, Angus Whitehead

      section |78 pages

      Section I

      chapter 1|23 pages

      We who have no country but our century

      Wong May, Singapore-Stateless Poet 1
      ByAngus Whitehead

      chapter 2|18 pages

      ‘A Kind of Pursuit’

      On Boey Kim Cheng’s Poetry
      ByShirley Chew

      chapter 3|20 pages

      A Luxury We Cannot Afford

      The Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng
      ByEddie Tay

      chapter 4|15 pages

      A City Without a Nation

      Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham
      BySteve Clark

      section |82 pages

      Section II

      chapter 5|15 pages

      The Social Life of Genres

      Short Stories as a Singapore Form
      ByPhilip Holden

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Of Language and Beyond

      Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, firstfruits, and Singapore Literature
      ByE.K. Tan

      chapter 7|18 pages

      Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism

      Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa
      ByWeihsin Gui

      chapter 8|26 pages

      ‘Leeet lor’

      Singapore Plays as Drama
      ByPaul Rae

      section |106 pages

      Section III

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Super-Diversity and Its Implications in Two Singapore Texts

      ByWai-chew Sim

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers

      Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts
      ByJoanne Leow

      chapter 11|20 pages

      In Praise of Failed Men (and the Woman Writer)

      Gender Politics in the Singapore Novel
      ByAngelia Poon

      chapter 12|19 pages

      Singapore as Strategic Location

      Setting and Positionality in Goh Poh Seng’s If We Dream Too Long and Lydia Kwa’s Pulse
      ByCheryl Narumi Naruse

      chapter 13|28 pages

      Burning in Your Hands

      Singapore’s Queer Literary Tradition
      ByYi-Sheng Ng
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