Research Catalog

Title

Singaporean literature in English : a critical reader / edited by Mohammad A. Quayum, Peter Wicks.

Publication

Serdang : Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Quayum, Mohammad A., Ph. D.
• Wicks, Peter C.

Description

xiii, 446 p.; 26 cm.

Subject

Singaporean literature (English) > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Section I. DEFINITIONS -- The development of Singporean literature in English / Ismail S. Talib -- Singapore writing in English : the literary tradition and cultural identity -- The English-language writer in Singapore / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Singapore writing in English : a need for commitment / Edwin Thumboo -- The writer and his audience in Singapore / Kirpal Singh -- Singapore, literature and identity / Peter Wicks -- Section II. STATE OF THE FIELD -- Fiction -- Novels of national identity and inter-national interpretation / Ruth Morse -- Dissenting voices : political engagements in the Singaporean novel in English / Leong Liew Geok -- Self, family and the state : social mythology in the Singapore novel in English / Koh Tai Ann -- The Singapore short story / Robert Yeo -- Drama -- Drama in Singapore : towards an English language theatre / Max Le Blond -- Theatre and censorship in Singapore / Robert Yeo -- Discourse from the margin : a triptych of negotiations in contemporary Singapore English-language theatre / K. K. Seet -- The "New Asian" modern in the theatre : cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch and the Asian 'Lear' / C. J. W.-L. Wee -- Poetry -- Achieving maturity : Singapore poetry in English / Kirpal Singh -- The "second tongue" myth : English poetry in polylingual Singapore / Jan. B. Gordon -- Section III. GENERAL LITERARY CRITICISM -- An approach to Singaporean writing in English / Kirpal Singh -- The sun in her eyes : writing in English by Singapore women / Koh Tai Ann -- Situating gender, evolving identities : women in four novels by Catherine Lim and Suchen Christine Lim -- Section IV. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS -- Edwin Thumboo -- The search for style and theme : a personal account / Edwin Thumboo -- An interview with Edwin Thumboo / Peter Nazareth -- Edwin Thumboo : a study of influence on the literary history of Singapore / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Towards a Singapore classic : Edwin Thumboo's "Ulysses by the Merlion" / Kirpal Singh -- 'Gods can die' : the writer and moral of social responsibility / Dudley de Souza -- Robert Yeo -- Writer as reformer : interview with Robert Yeo / Mohammad A. Quayum -- The poetry of Robert Yeo / Michael Wilding -- Robert Yeo's poetics and politics / Ismail Talib -- Postnationalism and hybridity in Robert Yeo's 'The Singapore trilogy' / Mohammad A. Quayum -- Catherine Lim -- The writer writing in English in multiethnic Singapore : a cultural peril, a cultural promise / Catherine Lim -- From Kulim to Singapore : Catherine Lim's literary life / Peter Wicks -- What's the use of stories? An interview with Dr. Catherine Lim / John Honeyfield -- An interview with Catherine Lim / Ong Siok Hong -- Rex Shelley -- Eurasian images of Singapore in the fiction of Rex Shelley / Rex Shelley -- Gopal Baratham -- Ritual, religion and cultural transformation in Gopal Baratham's 'Moonrise, sunset' / Chelva Kanaganayakam -- Kuo Pao Kun -- Theatre in Singapore : an interview with Kuo Pao Kun / Jacqueline Lo -- Kirpal Singh -- "Nestled dreams" : an interview with Kirpal Singh / Mohammad A. Quayum - Suchen Christine Lim -- Letter to a professor on the life of the imagination in Singapore / Suchen Christine Lim -- A two-headed demon : rev. of 'A bit of earth' / Mohammad A. Quayum -- Philip Jeyaretnam -- The significance of uselessness : resisting colonial masculinity in Philip Jeyaretnam's 'Abraham's promise' / Philip Holden -- Politics and loss in Philip Jeyaretnam's Singaporean fiction / Peter Wicks -- Lau Siew Mei -- A new voice in Singapore literature : interview with Lau Siew Mei / Lau Siew Mei.

ISBN

9832373506

LCCN

^^2003413615

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library