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Colony, nation, and globalisation / / Eddie Tay
| Colony, nation, and globalisation / / Eddie Tay |
| Autore | Tay Eddie |
| Edizione | [1st edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9358595 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Malaysian literature (English) - History and criticism
Singaporean literature (English) - History and criticism Imperialism in literature |
| ISBN | 988-8053-50-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781531603321 |
Tay Eddie
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| Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colony, nation, and globalisation / / Eddie Tay
| Colony, nation, and globalisation / / Eddie Tay |
| Autore | Tay Eddie |
| Edizione | [1st edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 pages) |
| Disciplina | 820.9358595 |
| Collana | Gale eBooks |
| Soggetto topico |
Malaysian literature (English) - History and criticism
Singaporean literature (English) - History and criticism Imperialism in literature |
| ISBN | 988-8053-50-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814673003321 |
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Tay Eddie
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| Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Singapore literature and culture : current directions in local and global contexts / / edited by Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead
| Singapore literature and culture : current directions in local and global contexts / / edited by Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Disciplina | 959.57 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
PoonAngelina
WhiteheadAngus |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Singaporean literature - History and criticism
Singaporean poetry - History and criticism Singaporean literature (English) - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-315-30773-1
1-315-30775-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. We who have no country but our century : Wong May, Singapore-stateless poet / Angus Whitehead -- 2. 'A kind of pursuit' : on Boey Kim Cheng's poetry / Shirley Chew -- 3. A luxury we cannot afford : the poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng / Eddie Tay -- 4. A city without a nation : personal and collective memory in the fiction of Gopal Baratham / Steve Clark -- 5. The social life of genres : short stories as a Singapore form / Philip Holden -- 6. Of language and beyond : Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, firstfruits, and Singapore literature / E.K. Tan -- 7. Singaporean literature and global modernism : Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa / Weihsin Gui -- 8. 'Leeet lor' : Singapore plays as drama / Paul Rae -- 9. Super-diversity and its implications in two Singapore texts / Wai-Chew Sim -- 10. Strangers, surrogates, lovers : foreign domestic workers in contemporary Singapore texts / Joanne Leow -- 11. In praise of failed men (and the woman writer) : gender politics in the Singapore novel / Angelia Poon -- 12. Singapore as strategic location : setting and positionality in Goh Poh Seng's If we dream too long and Lydia Kwa's Pulse / Cheryl Narumi Naruse -- 13. Burning in your hands : Singapore's queer literary tradition / Yi -Sheng Ng. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792506403321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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