Studies in Southeast Asian Chinese - Vol. 4
POST-COLONIAL CHINESE LITERATURES IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA
by Wong Yoon Wah (National University of Singapore)
This is the first book to present in English a history of post-colonial and diasporic Chinese literatures in Singapore and Malaysia. The 12 essays collected in it provide an in-depth study of the emergence of the new Chinese literatures by looking at the origins, the themes, the major authors and their works, and how the creativity is closely connected with the experience of immigration and colonialization and the challenge of the post-colonial world. In examining a wide range of post-colonial texts and their relation to the cultures of diasporic Chinese and post-colonial society, the author shows that each of the new literatures has its own traditions which reflect local social, political and cultural history. The essays also show that the literature of Singapore or Malaysia has a tradition of its own, and writers of world class. Besides the Chinese literary tradition, a native literary tradition has been created successfully.
Contents:
- The Post-Colonial Chinese Literatures in Singapore and
Malaysia: An Introduction
- The Origins, Trends and New Direction of Chinese Literature in Malaysia and Singapore
- An Introduction to Singapore Chinese Poetry
- Obsession with China: Chinese Literature in Singapore and Malaya Before World War II
- The Study of Singapore Chinese Literature: A Critical Bibliographical Survey
- Yu Dafu in Exile: His Last Days in Sumatra
- A Chinese Writer's Vision of Modern Singapore: A Study of Lao She's Novel Little Po's Birthday
- Chinese Writers and the "War-Resistance Literature" of Malaya and Singapore, 1937–1942
- Lao She's Obsession with Joseph Conrad's Stories of the Tropics
- A Reading of Zhang Hui's Memoirs of Ten Dreams
- The Impact of Urbanization on the Recent Development of Singapore Literature in Chinese
- Towards a Center of Study of World Chinese Literatures
Readership: Students (from secondary to university), academics,
researchers and general readers with interest in modern Chinese literature.
| 180pp |
Pub. date: Oct 2002 |
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