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| Author | : Robert Yeo |
| Publisher | : Epigram Books |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9810762518 |
Enter the world of Holden Heng, the not-so-lucky-in-love protagonist of this comic realist novel that documents social currents transforming the Lion City. Described as the most Singaporean of Singapore writers, Robert Yeo presents an immensely entertaining story of a typical Singaporean man’s escapades with three very different women. Will he ever find true love?
| Author | : Eugene Benson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 2597 |
| Release | : 2004-11-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134468474 |
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
| Author | : Mohammad A. Quayum |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783039110612 |
This book brings together for the first time interviews with sixteen major writers in the English language from Malaysia and Singapore. Three generations of writers representing various literary genres and ethnic groups come together to make this book fully illustrative of the literature of the two countries. In their respective interviews, the writers discuss significant issues pertaining to their own lives, careers, and works. They also explain what they think of the present state of their own societies, literatures, and cultures, and where they stand vis-à-vis the questions of religion, science, technology, censorship, gender, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationalism, and globalisation. Moreover, the writers comment on the challenges they encounter writing in an «alien» language as well as in an environment of growing materialism and technocracy; and, finally, they discuss the future of their own writing and writing in English in Malaysia and Singapore more generally.
| Author | : Rajeev S. Patke |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135257620 |
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across nations such as Thailand, China, Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong.
| Author | : Kirpal Singh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Singapore literature |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Alastair Pennycook |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2017-03-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 135184735X |
A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the globalization of English by examining its colonial origins, its connections to linguistics and applied linguistics, and its relationships to the global spread of teaching practices. Nine chapters cover a wide range of key topics including: international politics colonial history critical pedagogy postcolonial literature. The book provides a critical understanding of the concept of the ‘worldliness of English’, or the idea that English can never be removed from the social, cultural, economic or political contexts in which it is used. Reissued with a substantial preface, this Routledge Linguistics Classic remains a landmark text, which led a much-needed critical and ideologically-informed investigation into the burgeoning topic of World Englishes. Key reading for all those working in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes.
| Author | : Chong Guan Kwa |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 1002 |
| Release | : 2019-06-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9813277653 |
A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)
| Author | : Robert Yeo |
| Publisher | : Epigram Books |
| Total Pages | : 66 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9814757705 |
On 5 July 1981, Sir Stamford Raffles leaves his pedestal by the Singapore River and pays a visit to Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Istana. What follows is a wide-ranging discussion, both heated and humorous, that illustrates just how very human Singapore’s two most towering figures were. This conversation, along with the introduction of Munshi Abdullah (author of the Hikayat Abdullah), provides a fascinating backdrop for the investigation of historical authority and grand narratives.
| Author | : Lim Thean Soo |
| Publisher | : Epigram Books |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9810736193 |
First published in 1978 by Pan Pacific Book Distributors, Ricky Star is about a man who strives for career and financial success at the expense of everyone else around him, including even his wife and daughter. At first successful in his endeavour to climb a series of corporate ladders and becoming very rich, Ricky is, in the end, forced to reckon with his past misdeeds and indiscretions.
| Author | : Lloyd Fernando |
| Publisher | : Epigram Books |
| Total Pages | : 108 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9810731922 |
An exciting first novel set in pre-independence Singapore. Scorpion Orchid follows the lives of four young men—a Malay, an Eurasian, a Chinese and a Tamil—against a backdrop of racial violence and political factions struggling for dominance. Excerpts from classical Malay and colonial English sources appear throughout the narrative, illuminating the roots and significance of this period in history.
