Format:
1 online resource (vi, 301 pages)
ISBN:
9781315307756
,
9781315307725
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature Volume 40
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138234185
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138234185
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315307756
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315307749
