Post Colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia
DOWNLOAD
Download Post Colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Post Colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Post Colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yoon-wah Wong
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2002
Post Colonial Chinese Literatures In Singapore And Malaysia written by Yoon-wah Wong and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book to present in English a history of post-colonial and diasporic Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia. The 12 essays collected in it provide an in-depth study of the emergence of the new Chinese literatures by looking at the origins, the themes, the major authors and their works, and how the creativity is closely connected with the experience of immigration and colonialization and the challenge of the post-colonial world. In examining a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the cultures of diasporic Chinese and post-colonial society, the author shows that each of the new literatures has its own traditions which reflect local social, political and cultural history. The essays also show that the literature of Singapore or Malaysia has a tradition of its own, and writers of world class. Besides the Chinese literary tradition, a native literary tradition has been created successfully.
Colony Nation And Globalisation
DOWNLOAD
Author : Eddie Tay
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Colony Nation And Globalisation written by Eddie Tay and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Focusing on themes of home and belonging, Eddie Tay illuminates many aspects of identity anxiety experienced in the region, and helps construct a dialogue between postcolonial theory and the Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia. A chronologically ordered selection of texts is examined, including Swettenham, Bird, Maughham, Burgess, and Thamboo. This genealogy of works includes colonial travel writings and sketches as well as contemporary diasporic novels by Malaysians and Singapore-born authors based outside their countries of origin. The premise is that home is a physical space as well as a symbolic terrain invested with social, political and cultural meanings. As discussions of politics and history augment close readings of literary works, the book should appeal not only to scholars of literature, but also to scholars of Southeast Asian politics and history.
Writing The South Seas
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brian Bernards
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2016-09-23
Writing The South Seas written by Brian Bernards and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Postcolonial literature in Chinese from the Nanyang, literally the South Seas, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, and offers a rich variety of approaches to identity. In Writing the South Seas, Brian Bernards explores why Nanyang encounters, which have been neglected by most literary histories, should be seen as crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia. He shows how Nanyang, as a literary trope, has been deployed as a platform by mainland and overseas Chinese writers to rethink colonial and national paradigms. Through a collection of diverse voices—from modern Chinese writers like Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu and Lao She to postcolonial Southeast Asian authors from Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand—writers such as Ng Kim Chew, Chia Joo Ming, Pan Yutong, Yeng Pway Ngon, Suchen Christine Lim, Praphatson Sewikun and Fang Siruo—Bernards demonstrates how the Nanyang imagination negotiates the boundaries of national literature as a meaningful postcolonial subject, and speaks to broader conversations in postcolonial and global literature. This book, written from the emerging field of Sinophone Studies, puts the literature of the region in a new light.
Asian English Writers Of Chinese Origin
DOWNLOAD
Author : Amy Tak-yee Lai
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
Asian English Writers Of Chinese Origin written by Amy Tak-yee Lai and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam. It discusses how the withdrawal of colonial power and the implementation of nation-building policies impact race/ethnicity, class and language in these former British colonies. The last chapters take a special look at postcolonialism and gender politics, and explore how Chinese women, at home or abroad, defy the Orientalist gaze and the native patriarchy.
Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium
DOWNLOAD
Author : Wai Chew Sim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium written by Wai Chew Sim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with categories.
Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium presents an array of essential readings from the local canon. A compelling argument for the comparative study of Singapore's multilingual literature, the compendium aims to encourage inter-ethnic, inter-lingual, and inter-cultural transfer through the study of cultural expression across language and cultural divides within Singapore's literary scene. Apart from education and language policy, the compendium features the following seven sections: politics and history; gender, sexuality, and patriarchy; growing up, ageing, mortality; new migrants; multiculturalism and minority concerns; travel, regionalism, and global SG; and lastly, genre, experimental and speculative fiction. In turn, this compendium aims to alter entrenched orientations and encourage movement beyond the ascriptive parameters that organise cultural discussion in Singapore About the Editors: Sim Wai Chew is an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University. His academic specialisations include comparative literature, postcolonial literature and theory, and translingual literature and theory. His works include Kazuo Ishiguro (published by Routledge in 2010), British-Asian Fiction (published by Mellen in 2007) and Island Voices: A Collection of Short Stories from Singapore (published by Learners in 2007). He also recently published an English translation of Chia Joo Ming's sinophone novel Exile or Pursuit (published in 2019 by Balestier Press). His research has appeared in the journals Textual Practice, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture, and Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities. Yow Cheun Hoe is an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, where he is the head of the Chinese programme, Director of the Chinese Heritage Centre, and Director of the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture. He is a chief editor for Huaren Yanjiu Guoji Xuebao (International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies) and book review editor for Journal of Chinese Overseas. His academic specialisations include Chinese migration and diaspora, qiaoxiang (Overseas Chinese homeland) ties, and diasporic Chinese literature. His books include Xinjiapo yu Zhongguo xin yimin (New Chinese Migrants in Singapore: A Question of Citizenship) (published by the City University of Hong Kong Press in 2021); Yimin guiji he lisan lunshu: Xin Ma huaren zuqun de chongceng mailuo (Migration Trajectories and Diasporic Discourses: Multiples Contexts of Ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia) (published by Shanghai Sanlian Shudian in 2014), and Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang (published by Routledge in 2013). His articles have appeared in the Journal of Contemporary China, Modern Asian Studies, Asian Ethnicity, Cross-Cultural Studies, Changjiang Xueshu, and Waiguo Wenxue Yanjiu.
The Englishized Subject
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kwok-kan Tam
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-08
The Englishized Subject written by Kwok-kan Tam and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers’/people’s subjectivity. Taking a cultural-literary approach to the study of Englishized subjectivity, the book offers a unique study of hybridized literary/language forms by relating them to bilingual thinking and bicultural sensibility. Poets, novelists and playwrights have different strategies to cope with new images and new forms of expression that can capture their sense of hybridized identity, and as a result, hybridity becomes creativity.
Chinese Adaptation And Diversity
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leo Suryadinata
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 1993
Chinese Adaptation And Diversity written by Leo Suryadinata and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
The essays in this book originate from a joint project between the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) on the theme of Chinese emigration and settlement, with reference to the process of adaptation. The papers here feature the Chinese immigrants in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore--the problems they faced in the Western colonies; their social, cultural, and economic activities; and their attempts to adjust to the new environment especially after these colonies became independent. The process of change and adaptation is reflected in their communities and their literature.
Community And Politics
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ching-huang Yen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Community And Politics written by Ching-huang Yen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Political Science categories.
War And Memory In Malaysia And Singapore
DOWNLOAD
Author : Patricia Pui Huen Lim
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Release Date : 2000
War And Memory In Malaysia And Singapore written by Patricia Pui Huen Lim and has been published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This volume consists of selected papers presented at a workshop on War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II, plus two additional papers. The papers reveal the importance of oral history where documentary records are lacking.
Cultural Transplantation The Writing Of Classical Chinese Poetry In Colonial Singapore 1887 1945
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lap Lam
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Cultural Transplantation The Writing Of Classical Chinese Poetry In Colonial Singapore 1887 1945 written by Lap Lam and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Poetry categories.
Classical-style poetry in modern China and other Sinitic-speaking localities is attracting greater attention with the recent upsurge in academic revision of modern Chinese literary history. Using the concept of cultural transplantation, this monograph attempts to illustrate the uniqueness, compatibility, and adaptability of classical Chinese poetry in colonial Singapore as well as its sustained connections with literary tradition and homeland. It demonstrates how the reading of classical Chinese poetry can better our understanding of Singapore’s political, social, and cultural history, deepen knowledge of the transregional relationship between China and Nanyang, and fine-tune, redress, and enrich our perception of Singapore Chinese literature, Sinophone literature, the Chinese diaspora, and global Chinese identity.