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Poon, Angelia
- PublicationOpen AccessConstructing the cosmopolitan subject: Teaching secondary school literature in SingaporeThis article discusses the ambitious educational reforms of the Singapore government in response to the challenges of globalization vis-Ã -vis the specific issues arising from the case of teaching Literature in secondary schools. It shows how the Singapore state is invested in a particular view of globalization and argues how recent scholarly moves to recuperate the notion of cosmopolitanism may provide an alternative view. Turning to cosmopolitanism as an intellectual and ethical goal when considering curricular changes to Literature may also help revitalize the subject and garner a more significant role for it in the scripting of Singapore as a nation and global city for the future.
WOS© Citations 26Scopus© Citations 30 336 1040 - PublicationMetadata onlyEnglish-language literature of Singapore
This chapter surveys the English language literature of Singapore from 1965 to 2020, and presents a broad narrative about the growth and development of poetry, prose, and drama in relation to distinctive periods and concerns. Beginning with the poetry of the immediate post-independence years, written to establish a national literary tradition, the chapter then moves on to discuss how later writing engaged with the social and cultural concerns of moderniz ation and economic development. With Singapore’s positioning as a global city, new literary work was frequently produced within the context of cross-border travel or from a diasporic perspective, as the Singapore writing community grew to include migrant authors. From 2010, grass-roots eorts led to the accelerated publication of new work, an energiz ed infrastructure for the literary arts, and a renewed decolonial perspective on the nation’s beginnings.
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