Reframing Singapore : memory, identity, trans-regionalism / edited by Derek Heng and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heng, Derek Thiam Soon.

Aljunied, Syed Muhd. Khairudin, 1976-

Series:

ICAS Publications Series

ICAS publication series, Edited volumes ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Singapore.

Ethnicity.

Singapore--History.

Singapore.

Singapore--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

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-State

6. 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; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-318).

CC BY-NC

ISBN:

9786612401794

9781282401792

1282401793

9789048508211

9048508215

OCLC:

476295565

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089640949