Reviewing Singapore

Volume 10 Number 1


Reviewing Singapore

Description

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’
    • REVIEWS
      • by NATHAN SUHR-SYTSMA, LIM LEE CHING
    • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS