Shirley Chew

Datos Biográficos

ID384136
NOMBREShirley Chew
NOMBRESShirley
APELLIDOChew
FIRMACHEW S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Leeds
ORCID0009-0009-7125-5928
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1975
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Which is More Important? Moral Virtue or Life itself

    Open AccessShirley ChewARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2024Referencias: 7

    This paper examines a dilemma within the Confucian tradition wherein one is forced to choose between upholding moral virtue and preserving one's own life. The mainstream view valorises and exalts the act of sacrificing one's life in order to uphold moral virtue. There are many supporters of this view, spanning across different periods, including but not limited to Confucius, Mencius, the Cheng brothers, Zhu Xi, and so on. There is, however, an op…

  • The outlandishness of Han Suyin with particular reference to My House Has Two Doors

    Shirley ChewARTICLEJournal of Postcolonial Writing2021Referencias: 4

    In 1956, Han Suyin made the first of many annual visits to the new republic of China. Despite her deep support for its achievements, she understood she would always be out of place were she to try and fit in with the post-Revolution state. The cost of conformity would be the erosion of her distinctive sense of identity, split as it was on account of her mixed lineage with its ambivalences and contradictions. It would mean the denial of her aspira…

  • Re-constructing the Book

    Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew et al.BOOKRe-Constructing the Book2019

  • Re-Constructing the Book

    Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew et al.BOOKRe-Constructing the Book2019

  • South Asian Partition Fiction in English

    Shirley ChewARTICLEEnglish Studies2013

    South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khuswant Singh to Amitav Ghosh." English Studies, 94(2), pp. 247–248

  • A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

    Open AccessShirley Chew, David RichardsBOOKConcise Companion to Postcolonial…2010

    List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Shirley Chew 1 Framing Identities 9 David Richards 2 Orality and Literacy 29 Part 1: India G.N. Devy Part 2: South Africa Duncan Brown 3 The Politics of Rewriting 56 C.L. Innes 4 Postcolonial Translations 78 Susan Bassnett 5 Nation and Nationalisms 97 John McLeod 6 Feminism and Womanism 120 Nana Wilson-Tagoe 7 Cartographies and Visualization 141 David Howard 8 Marginality: Repres…

  • Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

    David Richards, Shirley ChewBOOKConcise Companion to Postcolonial…2010

  • Nayantara Sahgal in Conversation

    Shirley ChewARTICLEWasafiri2006

  • Forum

    Shirley ChewARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2005Referencias: 3

    This paper is, firstly, a critical analysis of Maxine Hong Kingston's story. ‘White Tigers’, drawing attention in particular to its polarized constructions of Chinese women; and secondly, a collage, made up of excerpts from existing discourse on the practice of foot-binding and this critic's personal memories of women with bound feet. Keywords: Foot-bindingfemale bodystorytelling or talking storymigranttranslation Notes A version of this essay ap…

  • Literary reviews

    Bapsi Sidhwa, Shirley Chew et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly1989

    Stray foreigners Baumgartner's Bombay. Anita Desai, London: Heinemann. 1988. 230pp. £10.95hb Tearing the Punjab Days of the Turban. Partap Sharma, London: Futura. 1988. 385pp. £4.95pb Ice‐Candy Man. Bapsi Sidhwa, London: Heinemann. 1988. 277pp. £11.95hb Privileged insulation Plans for Departure. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Penguin. 1987. 216pp. £3.95pb Mistaken Identity. Nayantara Sahgal, London: Heinemann. 1988. 194pp. £10.95hb Celebration and lam…

  • Leonard Woolf's Exemplary Tale `Pearls and Swine

    Open AccessShirley ChewARTICLEThe Journal of Commonwealth…1978

  • Books

    Rosemary Firth, C J M R Gullick et al.ARTICLENew Community1975

    Women and the philosophy of social work Ronald G. Walton, ed., Women in Social Work. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975. £6.95. 308 pp. F. E. McDermott (ed.), Self‐Determination in Social Work. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. PB. £2.40. 244 pp. Raymond Plant, Community and Ideology. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. £2.80. 90 pp. London Maltese Geoff Dench, Maltese in London: A Case Study in the Erosion of Ethnic Consciousness. Institute of Community Studies…