Reframing Singapore [[electronic resource] ] : memory, identity, trans-regionalism / / edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied

• Record Nr.: UNISA996216183203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-40179-3; 9786612401794; 90-485-0821-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: ICAS publication series, Edited volumes ; ; 6
• Altri autori (Persone): HengDerek Thiam Soon; AljuniedSyed Muhd. Khairudin <1976->
• Disciplina: 301; 330; 900
• Soggetti: Ethnicity - Singapore; Singapore History; Singapore Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318).
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. From Political Rhetoric to National History: Bi-Culturalism and Hybridisation in the Construction of Singapore's Historical Narrative; 3. Gateway and Panopticon: Singapore and Surviving Regime Change in the Nineteenth Century Malay World; 4. Beyond the Rhetoric of Communalism: Violence and the Process of Reconciliation in 1950's Singapore; 5. The Politics of Fires in Post-1950's Singapore and the Making of the Modernist Nation-State; 6. Gender and Discipline in 'The Singapore Story': The Female Chinese Factory Workers in Perspective, c. 1980-c.1997. Textualising the Baba Identity: Insights into the Making of a Bibliography; 8. Negotiating Identities, Affiliations and Interests: The Many Lives of Han Wai Toon, an Overseas Chinese; 9. Singaporean First: Challenging the Concept of Transnational Malay Masculinity; 10. Trans-National Biographies and Trans-National Habiti: The Case of Chinese-Singaporeans in Hong ; Kong; 11. Indian Media and the Lure of 'Uniquely Singapore'; 12. Localising the Global and Globalising the Local: The Global Households of Filipina Trans-Migrant Workers and Their Singapore Employers 13. Raffles Hotel Singapore: Advertising, Consumption and Romance; 14. The Role of Recruitment Agencies for Japanese Working Women in Singapore; About the Authors; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores fresh perspectives and offers new themes in the study of Singapore through the use of theoretical tools derived from various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.