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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Literature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Critical texts in Southeast Asian studies? in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years ago(Apologies for the thread necromancy. I hope we can keep this discussion thread active since there’s a lot of new and interesting scholarship being published about SEAsia in recent years.)
Hello everyone! Some time ago I borrowed a copy of the 1939 _Higher Education in Malaya_ report, which is a 150-page document by a commission appointed by the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Call for proposals: Southeast Asia special session for 2018 MLA in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI’m planning to put together a panel/special session on Southeast Asian literary/cultural narratives for the January 2018 Modern Language Association conference in New York, NY.
The theme for the MLA conference is “States of Insecurity” and I thought a panel dealing with contemporary narratives that negotiate insecurities in or resist the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years ago
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Weihsin Gui's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years ago
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Talks about SEAsian writing at PAMLA and MSA 2016 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHello all! Hope you don’t mind me doing a bit of self-promotion here. I’ll be giving two talks about Southeast Asian / Southeast Asian diasporic writing in November 2016 at the PAMLA and MSA conferences in Pasadena, California. Both conferences will be held at the Westin hotel, Pasadena. If you happen to be attending these conferences, do consider…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic MLA 2017 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoOur special session on “Genre and Boundary Conditions in Literature from Contemporary Malaysia and Singapore” (see below for details) will be taking place 30 minutes after the roundtable listed above. — Weihsin
Thursday, 5 January
106. Genre and Boundary Conditions in Literature from Contemporary Malaysia and Singapore
3:30–4:45 p.m., 407, P…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Critical texts in Southeast Asian studies? in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues:
What are some of the key critical or theoretical texts (monographs, anthologies, or journal articles/essays) that you consider important to your work in Southeast Asian / Southeast Asian diasporic studies? I’d like to get a conversation going so we can have a pool of interesting and provocative texts to draw on.
Here are 3 of…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of this forum and would be happy to volunteer for the executive committee!
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum and am happy to volunteer for the executive committee. — Weihsin Gui, Assoc Prof of English, University of California-Riverside
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Weihsin Gui's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
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Weihsin Gui's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
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Weihsin Gui changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
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Weihsin Gui became a registered member on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month ago
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Sheela Jane Menon changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago