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.
Eddie Tay is assistant professor of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Colony, Nation, and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature
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.
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.
Eddie Tay is assistant professor of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789888028740 |
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Publisher: | Hong Kong University Press |
Publication date: | 01/11/2011 |
Pages: | 176 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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