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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History
1. Aufl.
CHF 19.00 |
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Verlag: | Ethos Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 01.01.2021 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9789811490231 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities.</p>