Politics and loss in Philip Jeyaretnam's Singaporean fiction
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Article Title | Politics and loss in Philip Jeyaretnam's Singaporean fiction |
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ERA Journal ID | 18720 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Wicks, Peter |
Journal Title | Asian Profile |
Journal Citation | 26 (5), pp. 357-365 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 1998 |
Publisher | Asian Research Service |
Place of Publication | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
ISSN | 0304-8675 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.asianresearchservice.com/Asianprofile.htm |
Abstract | [Introduction]: Singapore’s Philip Jeyaretnam has now published two well-reviewed novels, a linked collection of short stories, as well as individual stories and reflective essays. This substantial literary achievement is more remarkable, given his relative youth, the controversial political circumstances of his paternal family, and his full-time career as a lawyer at the Singaporean Bar. Moreover, for Singaporeans, creative writing in the English language is, as pointed out in an editorial in the Straits Times newspaper, “a young flowering, struggling in new soil.”(1) In contemporary Singapore, politics and livelihood impinge on creative artists and their output as much, if not more than, other developed countries. |
Keywords | Philip Jeyaretnam, Singapore, Singaporean fiction |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470529. South-East Asian literature (excl. Indonesian) |
Public Notes | No response to requests for copyright permission from publisher. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9y223/politics-and-loss-in-philip-jeyaretnam-s-singaporean-fiction
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