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題 名 | “We Tap Tradition and Modernity”: Edwin Thumboo and the National Question |
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作 者 | Chiang,Shu-chen; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 29:2 民87.冬 |
頁 次 | 頁143-157 |
分類號 | 838.7 |
關鍵詞 | Edwin thumboo; Singapore; English literature; National literature; Nationalism; Postcolonialism; Modernity; Robert young; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Edwain Thumboo, national poet of Singapore, has witnessed the independence and modernization of his country, hence characterizing himself “post-colonial.” Believing that English could be the “bridge language” to connect different ethnic groups in Singapore, he has endowed poetry in English with the mission of cultural writing with an aim to combining the past, the present and the future of the country. His notion that “we tap tradition and modernity,” has been criticized, mainly by Western scholars, for keeping a vision too optimistic and therefore lacking self-criticism. This paper attempts to argue that Thumboo's belief in the functioning of tradition and modernity in a postcolonial condition can be understood by a postmodern logic of nationalism. In the perverse doubling of nationalism, things can be both the same and different, old and new at once in an on-going process. This reveals not so much a disabling flaw as the secret of the persistent and productive dynamism of nationalism. |
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