The writer's sense of the past : essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian literature / edited by Kirpal Singh



Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)

1987

The writer's sense of the past : essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian literature / edited by Kirpal Singh

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Scholars and writers from Southeast Asia and Australasia met in this seminar in Oct. 1984 at the National University of Singapore to discuss the topic "The Writer's Sense of the Past". A discourse on the seminar theme was extensively covered in the introductory section of the book.

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Australian literature--20th century--Congresses Singaporean literature--History and criticism.--Congresses Malaysian literature--History and criticism--Congresses Southeast Asian literature--20th century--History and criticism

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Title
The writer's sense of the past : essays on Southeast Asian and Australasian literature / edited by Kirpal Singh
Subject
  • Australian literature--20th century--Congresses
  • Singaporean literature--History and criticism.--Congresses
  • Malaysian literature--History and criticism--Congresses
  • Southeast Asian literature--20th century--History and criticism
Publisher
  • Singapore University Press, 1987
  • National Library Board Singapore, 1987
Contributors
  • Kirpal Singh, 1949-
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill.
Table of Contents
  • the American experience. Burton Raffel — University of Denver -- 2. History as myth in Malaysian poetry in English. Ee Tiang Hong — Western Australian College of Advanced Education -- 3. Fiction for the voice: oral elements in modern Malaysian literature. Muhammad Haji Salleh — National University of Malaysia -- 4. Tarnishing gold: the feudal hero in contemporary Malaysian drama. Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof — Universiti Sains Malaysia -- 5. Three novels on Singapore's past: description as a narrative feature. Arthur Yap — National University of Singapore -- 6. Lim Thean Soo's fiction and the Japanese past. Robert Yeo — Singapore Institute of Education -- 7. The strange case of Matthew Arnold in a sari or the past as prelude to Kamala Das. S.C. Harrex — Flinders University of South Australia -- 8. Remembering the house: sentimental memory, symbol or title-deed? Yasmine Gooneratne — Macquarie University -- 9. Sense of the past in Willa Cather and Henry Handel Richardson. Jack Bennett — University of Oregon -- 10. The sense of the past in pre-independence Papua New Guinean poetry. William McGaw — University of Wollongong -- 11. Urgently creating a past: remarks on James K. Baxter. Vincent O'Sullivan — University of Western Australia -- 12. "Anything to declare?": migrant writers in Australia. Lolo Houbein — University of Adelaide -- 13. Explorers and bushrangers in nineteenth-century Australian theatre. Veronica Kelly — University of Queensland -- 14. Deconstructing utopia: the blind metaphors of colonial painters and diarists. John Hay — University of Western Australia -- 15. The cry for the dead: Judith Wright and the aborigines. Shirley Walker — University of New England -- 16. History and the refuge of art: Thomas Keneally's sense of the past. David English — Footscray Institute of Technology -- 17. The cartography of exile: colonial preoccupations in recent Australian fiction. Robert Sellick — University of Adelaide -- 18. Versions of the past in the poetry of Les Murray and Peter Porter. Bruce Bennett — University of Western Australia -- 19. Past imperfect?: the sense of the past in Les. A. Murray Andrew Taylor — University of Adelaide -- 20. Evoking the past in contemporary Australian poetry. Dorothy Jones — University of Wollongong -- Statements by writers: ES. Jose — Philippines. Wong Phui Nam — Malaysia. K.S. Maniam — Malaysia. Edwin Thumboo — Singapore.
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