Colony, nation, and globalisation / Eddie Tay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tay, Eddie.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malaysian literature (English)--History and criticism.

Malaysian literature (English).

Singaporean literature (English)--History and criticism.

Singaporean literature (English).

Imperialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, HKU, 2010.

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9789888053506

9888053507

OCLC:

814551275