02857nam 22004693u 450 991045778570332120210114031227.0988-8053-50-7(CKB)2550000000074517(EBL)863865(OCoLC)768121314(MiAaPQ)EBC863865(EXLCZ)99255000000007451720130418d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Colony, Nation, and Globalisation[electronic resource] Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian LiteratureHong Kong Hong Kong University Press, HKU20101 online resource (175 p.)Description based upon print version of record.988-8028-73-1 Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I - Colony: British Malaya; 1 - Amok and Arrogation: Frank Swettenham's 'Real Malay'; 2 - Discourses of Difference: Isabella Bird, Emily Innes, and Florence Caddy; 3 - The Exhaustion of Colonial Romance: W. Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess; II - Nations: Malaya, Singapore, and Malaysia; 4 - 'There is no way out but through': Lee Kok Liang and the Malayan Nation; 5 - Nationalism and Literature: Two Poems Concerning the Merlion and Karim Raslan's "Heroes"6 - Irresponsibility and Commitment: Philip Jeyaretnam's Abraham's Promise and Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the SunIII - Globalisation: Home is Elsewhere; 7 - The Post-Diasporic Imagination: The Novels of K. S. Maniam; 8 - Two Singaporeans in America: Hwee Hwee Tan's 'Mammon Inc.' and Simon Tay's 'Alien Asian'; 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'; Conclusion; Works Cited; IndexThis book 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.Identity (Philosophical concept) in literatureImperialism in literatureMalaysian literature (English) -- History and criticismSingaporean literature (English) -- History and criticismElectronic books.Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.Imperialism in literature.Malaysian literature (English) -- History and criticism.Singaporean literature (English) -- History and criticism.820.9358595Tay Eddie1029516AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910457785703321Colony, Nation, and Globalisation2445988UNINA