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Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore
literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there
have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing
Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention
garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone
Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time,
embedding it more closely within literary developments worldwide.
Drawing upon postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical
discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays unearth
and introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established
writers, and examine texts in relation to their specific
Singaporean local-historical contexts while also engaging with
contemporary issues in Singapore society. Singaporean writers are
producing work informed by debates and trends in queer studies,
feminism, multiculturalism and social justice -- work which
urgently calls for scholarly engagement. This groundbreaking
collection of essays aims to set new directions for further
scholarship in this exciting and various body of writing from a
place that, despite being just a small 'red dot' on the global map,
has much to say to scholars and students worldwide interested in
issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism,
immigration, urban space, as well as literary form and content.
This book brings Singapore literature and literary criticism into
greater global legibility and charts pathways for future
developments.
Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore
literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there
have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing
Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention
garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone
Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time,
embedding it more closely within literary developments worldwide.
Drawing upon postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical
discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays unearth
and introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established
writers, and examine texts in relation to their specific
Singaporean local-historical contexts while also engaging with
contemporary issues in Singapore society. Singaporean writers are
producing work informed by debates and trends in queer studies,
feminism, multiculturalism and social justice -- work which
urgently calls for scholarly engagement. This groundbreaking
collection of essays aims to set new directions for further
scholarship in this exciting and various body of writing from a
place that, despite being just a small 'red dot' on the global map,
has much to say to scholars and students worldwide interested in
issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism,
immigration, urban space, as well as literary form and content.
This book brings Singapore literature and literary criticism into
greater global legibility and charts pathways for future
developments.
Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the
nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways
that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by
authors that include Charlotte BrontA", Mary Seacole, Charles
Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting
Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies -
narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English
subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising
these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and
fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was
an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised,
and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways
to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of
thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act
of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing
historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of
Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial
authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.
Angelia Poon examines how British colonial authority in the
nineteenth century was predicated on its being rendered in ways
that were recognizably 'English'. Reading a range of texts by
authors that include Charlotte BrontA", Mary Seacole, Charles
Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard, Enacting
Englishness in the Victorian Period focuses on the strategies -
narrative, illustrative, and rhetorical - used to perform English
subjectivity during the time of the British Empire. Characterising
these performances, which ranged from the playful, ironic, and
fantastical to the morally serious and determinedly didactic, was
an emphasis on the corporeal body as not only gendered, racialised,
and classed, but as (in)visible, desiring, bound in particular ways
to space, and marked by certain physical stylizations and ways of
thinking. As she shines a light on the English subject in the act
of being and becoming, Poon casts new light on the changing
historical circumstances and discontinuities in the performances of
Englishness to disclose both the normative power of colonial
authority as well as the possibilities for resistance.
Over the last thirty years, feminist, postcolonial and queer
theorists have interrogated the ways in which sexuality is
conceptualized and constructed, specifically with the intention of
deconstructing essentialist notions of sexuality and identity
formation. Yet, while recent theoretical interventions have
re-situated sexuality as a historical and social category--allowing
us to see how ideas about sexuality are linked to forms of power
and other hegemonic categories of identity and subjectivity like
class, race, gender and nationality--sexuality remains a
contentious subject. In critically examining the plural
representations of sexuality in contemporary literature, this book
has a distinctly global emphasis, containing essays that
interrogate sexuality in the work of not only a number of
mainstream American and British writers but also less well-known
writers from New Zealand and Canada. All of the chapters owe
primary intellectual and theoretical debts to three broad and
overlapping domains of critical scholarship and practice: feminism,
queer theory, and postcolonial studies. As the first critical
collection of essays to consider the representation of sexuality
across such a wide variety of contemporary writing, Sexuality and
Contemporary Literature analytically foregrounds insights into the
historical and current arrangements of sexuality that contemporary
literature provides, while also inviting the reader to imagine
other possibilities for the future that literary texts open up.
Sexuality and Contemporary Literature is an important book for
literary and cultural studies collections.
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