This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap's prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap's work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique. Refer to this link for list of supported app: Click here! Buy by Chapter (individual chapters fulfilled in digital format) Preliminary pages 1. Common Lines and City Spaces: Introduction 2. The Transformation of Objects into Things in Arthur Yap's Poetry 3. "the same tableau, intrinsically still": Arthur Yap, Poet-Painter 4. "go to bedok, you bodoh": Arther Yap's Mapping of Singaporean Space 5. On Places and Spaces: The Possibilities of Teaching Arthur Yap 6. Arther Yap's Ecological Poetics of the Daily 7. "except for a word": Arthur Yap's Unspoken Homoeroticism 8. "a long way from what?": Folkways and Social Commentary in Arthur Yap's Short Stories Index Colour plates Subjects:Literary Studies / AsianNumber of Pages: 198Imprint: Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublication Date: 41716Format: PB
