Raffles renounced : towards a Merdeka history / edited by Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min
Author(s): Joraimi, Faris | Sai, Siew Min | Sa'at, Alfian
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Raffles renounced : towards a Merdeka history
- Author(s)
- Sa'at, Alfian
Joraimi, Faris
Sai, Siew Min - Publisher
- Singapore : Ethos Books, 2021
- Collation
- 279 pages
22 cm - ISBN
- 9789811420382
- Dewey Class
- 959.57
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. "We refuse to recognise the trauma": A Conversation between Alfian Sa'at and Neo Hai Bin -- 3. "Merdeka!": From cacophony to the sound of silence / Hong Lysa -- 4. Stamford Raffles and the Founding of Singapore: The Politics of Commemoration and Dilemmas of History / Huang Jianli -- 5. The Bicentennial: Of Precedents, Prequels and the Discipline of History in Singapore / Hong Lysa -- 6. Why Raffles is Still Standing: Colonialism, Migration and Singapore's Scripting of the Present / Sai Siew Min -- 7. Finding Merdeka in a World of Statues: Singapore's Colonial Pageant Remade and Unmade / Faris Joraimi -- 8. Malay Literary Intelligentsia and Colonialism: A Stunted Discourse / Azhar Ibrahim -- 9. Opening the Bicentennial: Historical Plurality in Sean Cham's Art / Nicholas Lua -- 10. "Giving up an attachment to power": An interview with Jimmy Ong -- 11: "Theatre doesn't change anything": Merdeka and the Performance of the Singapore Bicentennial / Joanne Leow -- 12. Merdeka Texts. 1. Excerpts from Raffles and the British Invasion of Java by Tim Hannigan -- 2. Excerpt from the Hikayat Abdullah, Chapter 13: “The Treaty with Tengku Long.” (Translated by A H Hill) -- 3. Excerpts from Tuhfat al-Nafis (The Precious Gift) (Translated by Virginia Hooker and Barbara Watson Andaya) -- 4. Excerpt from the Hikayat Abdullah, Chapter 14: “Colonel Farquhar Stabbed.” (Translated by A H Hill) -- 5. Excerpts from “Syair Potong Gaji” (The Ballad of Cut Wages), composed by Tuan Simi in Singapore, 1841 -- 6. Report on Singapore’s Centenary Day celebrations -- 7. Excerpts from a speech by Subhas Chandra Bose at a military review of the Indian National Army, 5 July 1943 -- 8. Excerpts from Oral History Interview with Dr S Lakshmi and Colonel P K Sahgal (Group Interview) by the Oral History Department, National Archives of Singapore, 21 August 1990 -- 9. “Subh Sukh Chain,” Anthem of the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind) -- 10. Dr Paglar’s speech and resolution of 2 January 1945, Syonan Shimbun -- 11. I Love My Malaya (1954) -- 12. Petition to The Colonial Governor for National Service Exemption (1954) -- 13. Singapore Chinese Middle School Students’ Union Manifesto on “May 13 Incident” -- 14. Aggression in Asia by Poh Soo Kai and M K Rajakumar (1954) -- 15. Excerpts from the opening address of the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung by Sukarno, first President of the Republic of Indonesia (1955) -- 16. Excerpts from a speech by the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, at Malaysia Solidarity Day Mass Rally and March Past on the Padang, 31 August 1963 -- 17. Excerpt from a speech by Mr S Rajaratnam, Second Deputy Prime Minister (Foreign Affairs), at a seminar on ‘Adaptive Reuse: Integrating Traditional Areas into the Modern Urban Fabric,’ 28 April 1984.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Singapore -- History
Singapore -- Historiography - BRN
- 10248
Availability
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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Books
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959.57 RAF
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On-Loan
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