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Noon at five o'clock : the collected short stories of Arthur Yap / edited by Angus Whitehead ; with a foreword by Rajeev Patke and essay by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yap, Arthur, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, Singaporean (English).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxi, 89 pages))
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap (1943-2006). One of Singapore's most important artists, he was an award-winning poet and an accomplished painter. A hitherto neglected facet of Yap's opus, his eight short stories are deceptive in their simplicity, housing within their sparse prose a complex engagement with Singapore society from which he wrote. With his signature minimalistic style, Yap simultaneously perplexes readers with stories of seemingly plotless ambiguity, yet draws them in with familiar characters playing out situations that still resonate in twenty-first century Singapore today. Angus Whitehead's introduction highlights literary nuances in the stories and frames the stories within the wider backdrop of social change of Singapore at the time of Yap's writing. The meticulous critical apparatus make this book of interest to not only the general reader but also students of Singapore and Southeast Asian literature in English.
- Contents:
- Endorsements
- Half title, full title, copyright and dedication page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- An Introduction to the Short Stories of Arthur Yap
- Noon at Five O'clock
- A 5-Year Plan
- A Silly Little Story
- Soo Meng
- The Effect of a Good Dinner
- None the Wiser
- The Story of a Mask
- A Beginning and a Middle Without an Ending
- Notes
- His Little Area of Animation": An Essay
- Appendix One: Arthur Yap on the Short Story
- Appendix Two: Timeline
- Appendix Three: Articles and Mentions in Press
- Appendix Four: Publications
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9971-69-805-6
- OCLC:
- 881467414
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