Colony, Nation, and Globalisation – Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-01
Mått:159 x 227 x 13 mm
Vikt:334 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Hong Kong University Press
ISBN:9789888028740

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Eddie Tay is an assistant professor at the Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the author of three collections of poetry.

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With this book, Eddie Tay makes a dynamic contribution to a new generation of scholarship on Malaysian, Singaporean and, indeed, historical Malayan literature and culture that is driven by the problem of history, cultural identity and subjectivity that ties colonial history and experiences to 'globalised' present. His focus on the literary renditions of home, the unhomely and freedom is vivid and creates a study that will be of interest to readers in the humanities concerned with the questions of the ambiguities of national and postcolonial identity. -- C.J.W.-L. Wee, Associate Professor of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore