02746oam 2200469 450 991081467300332120170523091620.0988-8053-50-7(OCoLC)814551275(MiFhGG)GVRLA07T(EXLCZ)99255000000007451720121023d2010 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierColony, nation, and globalisation /Eddie Tay1st edition.Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press, HKU2010Hong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,2010.1 online resource (165 pages)Gale eBooksDescription 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.Malaysian literature (English)History and criticismSingaporean literature (English)History and criticismImperialism in literatureMalaysian literature (English)History and criticism.Singaporean literature (English)History and criticism.Imperialism in literature.820.9358595Tay Eddie1178782MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910814673003321Colony, nation, and globalisation4098598UNINA