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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History


Publisher: Ethos Books
S$25.00
  • 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 answers these questions through essays by historians, literary scholars and artists. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் by Wild Rice in 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, too.

ISBN: 9789811420382
Page Count: 280
Year Published: 2021
Size: 150mm x 220mm
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