The Scent of the Gods / by Fiona Cheong ; edited by Leslie Bow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheong, Fiona.

Contributor:

Bow, Leslie, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singaporean fiction.

Singapore--Fiction.

Singapore.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 261 p. ) map ;

Edition:

1st Illinois pbk.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl's coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of "grown-ups" in her diasporic Chinese family and to the veiled threats in Southeast Asia during the Cold War years. From a child's limited perspective, the novel depicts the emerging awareness of sexuality in both its beauty and its consequences, especially for women. In the context of postcolonial politics, Fiona Cheong skillfully parallels the uncertainties of adolescence with the growing paranoia of a population kept on alert to communist infiltration. In luminous prose, the novel raises timely questions about safety, protection, and democracy--and what one has to give up to achieve them._x000B__x000B_Ideal for students and scholars of Asian American and transnational literature, postcolonial history, women's studies, and many other interconnected disciplines, this special edition of The Scent of the Gods includes a contextualizing introduction, a chronology of historical events covered in the novel, and explanatory notes.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-261).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-95956-5

9786612959561

0-252-09008-X

OCLC:

702844762