One of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Katherine Enright’s essay analyzes Ng Yi-Sheng’s short story “Agnes Joaquim, Bioterrorist” as a subversion of the conventions of Victorian plant fiction and of the orchid as a Singaporean national symbol.
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Quek Yee Kiat’s paper is a study of selected rewritings of myths in Singapore and their re-significations, encompassing two interconnecting themes––“Fearless Females” and “Queering Hybrids.”
Read MoreOne of three winners of the 2022 Singapore Unbound Awards for the Best Undergraduate Critical Essays on Singapore and Other Literatures, Timothy Wan’s essay uses Pearl Bank as a focal point to offer a reconsideration of how Singaporeans engage with nostalgia.
Read MoreIn this essay on the late Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam, Daryl Lim Wei Jie considers how death acted for the poet as “a catalyst of deeper truths about the exilic migrant condition that he perceived himself to be stranded in – and the broader human condition.”
Read MoreIn “Dear Pluto,” Susan L. Lin writes to the Death Planet about her plans to visit it in the distant future.
Read More“Singapore's climb from a Third World country to a First World nation was made easier, thanks to the escalator.”
Read MoreAmanat is a groundbreaking anthology featuring the stories of women writers from Kazakhstan over the past thirty years.
Read MoreIn “My Story,” Burmese rights advocate Ningja Khon relates how she ran afoul of the Myanmar’s military junta and had to escape the country to southern Thailand before ending up in the US.
Read Moreila explores through writing and photography the local spiritualities in Singapore.
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