Colony, nation, and globalisation : not at home in Singaporean and Malaysian literature / Eddie Tay.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.

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This work 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.

Machine generated contents note: I. Colony: British Malaya -- ch. 1 Amok and Arrogation: Frank Swettenham's `Real Malay' -- ch. 2 Discourses of Difference: Isabella Bird, Emily Innes, and Florence Caddy -- ch. 3 Exhaustion of Colonial Romance: W. Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess -- II. Nations: Malaya, Singapore, and Malaysia -- ch. 4 `There is no way out but through': Lee Kok Liang and the Malayan Nation -- ch. 5 Nationalism and Literature: Two Poems Concerning the Merlion and Karim Raslan's "Heroes" -- ch. 6 Irresponsibility and Commitment: Philip Jeyaretnam's Abraham's Promise and Gopal Baratham's A Candle or the Sun -- III. Globalisation: Home is Elsewhere -- ch. 7 Post-Diasporic Imagination: The Novels of K.S. Maniam -- ch. 8 Two Singaporeans in America: Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc. and Simon Tay's Alien Asian -- ch. 9 Writing Back Home: Tash Aw's The Harmony Silk Factory, Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue, and Lau Siew Mei's Playing Madame Mao.

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