A theme that runs through this issue is the reach of the state and the effect on citizens, the arts and cultural development in everyday Singapore life. It examines the interactions between the state’s priority of economic progress and how the arts are considered and treated.
Contents
EDITORIAL
KOH TAI ANN
FICTION
SUCHEN CHRISTINE LIM, Big Wall Newspaper
OVIDIA YU, Big Dog, Small Lives
WAI-CHEW SIM, Great Singapore Sale
DRAMA
HARESH SHARMA, Eclipse
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
GOH POH SENG, ‘A Star-Lovely Art’
POETRY
NG YI-SHENG, Madonna Enthroned With Saints, Giuseppe Castiglione
LEONG LIEW GEOK, How to Cook a Wolf
HENG SIOK TIAN, Stairway (157, Neil Road, Singapore), Meeting Crow at
Karakorum Highway, Pakistan
ARTICLES
TERENCE CHONG, ‘At least my Singapore is real’: The Politics of Authenticity in
Identity-Formations
C.J.W.-L. WEE, Cultural Diversity in the Modern Urbanscape: Public Housing in
Singapore Film
KENNETH CHAN, Maid to Serve: Representations of Female Domestic Workers in
Singapore Cinema
KWOK KIAN-WOON, The Stakes in Contemporary Art: Tang Da Wu’s Artistic Practice as
Exemplar
K.K. SEET, From a Theatre of Politics to the Politics of Theatre: Ong Keng Sen and
Interculturalism
DAVID BIRCH, Artistic Citizenship: The Repoliticization of Theatre in the New Creative
Economy of Singapore
QUAH SY REN, Representing Idealism and Activism: Kuo Pao Kun’s Theatre in the 1960s
and the 1970s
NEIL MURPHY, ‘A way of happening, a mouth’: Public Transactions and Interior Spaces in
the Poetry of Singapore
AVIJIT GUPTA, The Singapore River
DIALOGUE
LEE TZU PHENG AND ROBERT YEO, ‘The 1960s: Being the Second Generation’