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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History - cover

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min

Casa editrice: Ethos Books

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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.
Disponibile da: 19/08/2022.
Lunghezza di stampa: 280 pagine.

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