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Schedule

Week	Beg.	Class	Topic	Preparation	Lecturer
2	12/1	1	Introduction	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Ismail Talib Philip Holden
3	19/1	2	Colonial Writing (1): Colonial Short Stories	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Philip Holden
4	26/1	3	Colonial Writing(2): Short Stories from the Straits Chinese Magazine	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Philip Holden
5	2/2	4	Poetry (1): Robert Yeo	By arrangement with lecturer	Ismail Talib
6	9/2	5	Poetry (2): Robert Yeo and Arthur Yap	By arrangement with lecturer	Ismail Talib
7	16/2	6	Poetry (3): Arthur Yap	By arrangement with lecturer	Ismail Talib Research Essay Proposal Due
8	23/2	7	Philip Jeyaretnam (1)	By arrangement with lecturer	Ismail Talib
10	2/3	8	Philip Jeyaretnam (2)	By arrangement with lecturer	Ismail Talib
11	8/3	9	Kuo Pao Kun (1)	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Philip Holden
12	15/3		Break for consultation on research essay
13	22/3	10	Kuo Pao Kun (2) Lau Siew Mei (1)	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Philip Holden
14	29/3	11	Lau Siew Mei (2)	Readings and Preparatory Questions	Philip Holden Research Essay Due
15	5/4	Revision
16	12/4	NUS Examination Period Final Examination
17	19/4

Required Texts

You will need to buy the following texts from the NUS Coop. Other readings, including secondary readings, will be provided in electronic or photocopied format.

• Jeyaretnam, Philip. Abraham's Promise. Singapore: Times, 1995.
• Kuo Pao Kun. Images at the Margins: A Collection of Kuo Pao Kun's Plays. Singapore: Times, 2000.
• Lau Siew Mei. Playing Madame Mao. Rose Bay: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2000.
• Yap, Arthur. the space of city trees: selected poems. London: Skoob, 2000.
• Yeo, Robert. Leaving Home, Mother: Selected Poems. Singapore: Angsana, 1999.
• COURSE PACKET, containing:
  • Edward Said, "The Discourse of the Orient." Literature in the Modern World: Critical Esays and Documents. Ed Dennis Walder. Oxford, Oxford UP, 1990. 234-245.
  • W. Somerset Maugham, "The Letter." Collected Short Stories. London: Pan, 1976. Vol. 4. 314-346.
  • Partha Chatterjee, "Whose Imagined Community?" The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. 3-13. [optional reading]
  • Partha Chatterjee, "Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: The Contest in India" American Ethnologist, 16. (Feb 1989): 622-33. [optional reading]
  • Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper, "Between Metropole and Colony: Rethinking a Research Agenda." Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Ed. Cooper and Stoler. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995. 1-56.
  • Bertolt Brecht. "Theatre for Learning" Brecht Sourcebook. Ed. Carol Martin and Henry Bial. London: Routledge, 2000. 23-31.
  • Kuo Pao Kun, "Contemplating an Open Culture: Transcending Multiracialism." Singapore: Re-Engineering Success. Ed. Arun Mahizhnan and Lee Tsao Yuan. Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies, 1998. 50-61.
  • Lau Siew Mei "A New Voice in Singaporean Literature: Interview with Lau Siew Mei." Mohammad A. Quayum. Singaporean Literature in English: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum and Peter Wicks. Serdang: Universiti Putra Malaysia P, 2002. 443-446

Last updated: 28 January, 2004