Singapore

Bibliographical References for Drama in English from Singapore and Malaysia

Ahmad, Aijaz. (1995) 'The Politics of Literary Post-coloniality', Race and Class, 36.3, pp. 1-20.

Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth & Tiffin, Helen. (1989) The Empire Writes Back, Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures, London, Routledge.

Benveniste, Emile. (1971) Problems in General Linguistics, tr. Mary Elizabeth, Miami, University of Miami Press.

Bhabha, Homi K. (1994) The Location of Culture, London/New York, Routledge.

Chin San Sooi. (1996) 'A Director's View', in Kon, Stella, Emily of Emerald Hill (Reader's Edition), Singapore, Constellation Books, pp 92-94.

DuBois, Marc. (1991) 'The Governance of the Third World: A Foucauldian Perspective on Power Relations in Development', Alternatives 16, pp. 1-30.

Escobar, Arturo. (1984) 'Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of his Work to the Third World', Alternatives 10, pp. 377-400.

Fanon, Frantz. (1968) The Wretched of the Earth, New York, Grove Press, Inc. First published (in French) 1963.

Fernando, Lloyd. (1986) Cultures in Conflict, Essays on Literature and the English Language in South East Asia, Singapore, Graham Brash.

Flowers, Betty S. (1985) 'The "I" in Adrienne Rich, Individuation and the Androgyne Archetype', in Gabriela Mora & Karen S. Van Hooft (eds) Theory and Practice of Feminist Literary Criticism, Michigan, Bilingual Press.

Gilbert, Helen & Joanne Tompkins. (1996), Post-Colonial Drama, Theory, Practice, Politics, London/New York, Routledge.

Jit, Krishen. (1989) 'Modern Theatre in Singapore, A Preliminary Survey', Tenggara 23.

Kandiah, Thiru. (1991) 'Perceiving the ''Other'' within One's Unique Self: Understanding Sri Lankan Creative Writing in English', in Thumboo, Edwin (ed.) Perceiving Other Worlds, Singapore, Times Academic Press.

Kandiah, Thiru. (1994) 'Audience and Form, Singaporean Plays in English', 'Introduction' to Kandiah, Thiru (ed.) Beyond the Footlights, New Play Scripts in Singapore Theatre, Singapore, UniPress, pp. 1-41.

Koh Tai Ann. (1991) 'Making the Self at Home', paper presented at the International Conference on Migration, Singapore, February 1991.

Kon, Stella. (1989) Emily of Emerald Hill, reprinted with notes and articles on the play, 1996, Singapore, Constellation Books.

Le Blond, Max. (1986) 'Drama in Singapore: Towards an English Language Theatre', in Hyland, Peter (ed.) Discharging the Canon, Cross-cultural Readings in Literature, Singapore, Singapore University Press, pp. 112-25.

Le Blond, Max. (1991) 'Notes', in Modern Asian Plays, rpt. in Kon, Stella, Emily of Emerald Hill (Reader's Edition), Singapore, Constellation Books, pp. 64-67.

Lo, Jacqueline. (1991) 'Tracing Emily of Emerald Hill: Subject Positioning in Performance', in Bennett, Bruce & Haskell, Dennis (eds) Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes, Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, Perth, CSAL, University of Western Australia, pp. 120-31.

Lo, Jacqueline. (1993) 'Theatre in Singapore: An Interview with Kuo Pao Kun', Australasian Drama Studies, 23, pp. 135-46.

Pakir, Anne. (1991) 'Peranakans in Plays: Cultural Record or Compelling Drama', in Thumboo, Edwin (ed.) Perceiving Other Worlds, Singapore, Times Academic Press, pp. 386-99..

Parry, Benita. (1995) 'Problems in Current Theories of Colonial Discourse', in Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth & Tiffin, Helen (eds) The Post-colonial Studies Reader, London, Routledge, pp. 36-44. First published in Oxford Literary Review, 9, 1987.

Rich, Adrienne. (1976) Of Woman Born, New York, Norton & Co.

Said, Edward W. (1979) Orientalism, New York, Vintage Books. First published 1978.

Seet, K.K. (To appear) 'The Intercultural Endeavour in Singapore Language Theatre', in Seet, K.K. (ed.) Liminality, States of Transition in Singapore Theatre. Singapore, Federal Publications.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. (1988) 'Can the Subaltern Speak?', in Nelson, C. & Grossberg, L. (ed.) Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Basingstoke, Macmillan Education, pp. 271-313.


Adapted from Post-Colonial Literatures in English, ed. Rajeev S. Patke, 1998, by George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University; Distinguished Visiting Professor, NUS, 1998-99.



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