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200 10$aColony, nation, and globalisation /$fEddie Tay
205   $a1st edition.
210   $aHong Kong $cHong Kong University Press, HKU$d2010
210  1$aHong Kong :$cHong Kong University Press,$d2010.
215   $a1 online resource (165 pages)
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a988-8028-73-1 
327   $aContents; 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"
327   $a6 - 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; Index
330   $aThis 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.
606   $aMalaysian literature (English)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aSingaporean literature (English)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aImperialism in literature
615  0$aMalaysian literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aSingaporean literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aImperialism in literature.
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