Narrating privilege: meritocracy and the portrait of the scholar in Singapore Anglophone literature.
This article considers the literary representation of the government scholar in Singapore Anglophone writing, focusing on two recent novels in particular. I begin by tracing the main features of Singapore's form of meritocracy, especially the pivotal role that competitive government scholarships pla...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 414 - 433 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2018
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