Colony, nation, and globalisation : not at home in Singaporean and Malaysian literature
Home in literature Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature Malaysian literature (English) Postcolonialism Singaporean literature (English) Imperialism in literature Imperialism LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literature Criticism, interpretation, etc sähkökirjat
Hong Kong University Press
2011
EISBN 9789888053506
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.
