Singapore Literature and Culture

Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts
Herausgeber: Poon, Angelia Mui Cheng; Whitehead, Angus

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a global audience for the first time, embedding it within literary developments worldwide. Drawing on postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their local-historical contexts while engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. It sets new directions for further scholarship on a body of writing that has much to say to those interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, and literary form and content.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781138234185
• ISBN-10: 1138234184
• Artikelnr.: 48247619

Autorenporträt

Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of English Literature and Deputy Head of the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Angus Whitehead is Assistant Professor in the department of English Language & Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Angus Whitehead and Angelia Poon
1. Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd
Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui
2. "We who have no country but our century": Wong May, Singapore-stateless
Poet Angus Whitehead
3. The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip
Holden
4. Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew
5. Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, FirstFruits, and Singapore
Literature E.K. Tan
6. The Politics and Poetics of Location in Contemporary Diasporic Singapore
Fiction Cheryl Narumi Naruse
7. 'A Kind of Pursuit': On Boey Kim Cheng's poetry Shirley Chew
8. A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien
Min, and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay
9. A City without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction
of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark
10. "Burning In Your Hands": Queer Literature in Singapore Ng Yi-Sheng
11. In Praise of Failed Men: the Singapore Novel and the Politics of
Masculinity Angelia Poon
12. Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary
Singapore Texts Joanne Leow