03460 am 22006493u 450 99621618320331620200520144314.01-282-40179-3978661240179490-485-0821-5(CKB)1000000000806731(EBL)474242(OCoLC)476295565(SSID)ssj0000342244(PQKBManifestationID)11255260(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342244(PQKBWorkID)10285212(PQKB)10843358(Au-PeEL)EBL474242(CaPaEBR)ebr10346702(CaONFJC)MIL240179(MiAaPQ)EBC474242(EXLCZ)99100000000080673120090416d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReframing Singapore[electronic resource] memory, identity, trans-regionalism /edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin AljuniedAmsterdam Amsterdam University Pressc20091 online resource (321 p.)ICAS publication series, Edited volumes ;6Description based upon print version of record.90-8964-094-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318).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-State6. 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; BibliographyThis 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.ICAS Publications SeriesEthnicitySingaporeSingaporeHistorySingaporeSocial conditionsEthnicity301330900Heng Derek Thiam Soon922848Aljunied Syed Muhd. Khairudin1976-924060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996216183203316Reframing Singapore2073770UNISA