Joanne Leow
Biographic Data
| ID | 238160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Leow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Leow |
| SIGNATURE | LEOW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Litorally Speaking
Field Notes, Fluidities, and Fictional Archives: Transmedial Photography and Singapore's Altered Coastlines
Reading New Asian Tropicalities in Contemporary Singapore
This essay theorizes the cultivation, suppression, and cooptation of new forms of Asian tropicality in the material and cultural productions of contemporary Singapore. Originating in Anglo-American imperial discourse of the eighteenth century, tropicality suggests the social construction of the “tropics” as a space in opposition to European and North American temperate environments. Reading the material space of the massive eco-development Garden…
Renovating Vancouver: Transnational Constructions and Mortgages in Sachiko Murakami's Rebuild
This article examines how Asian diasporic Vancouverite poetry explores the implications of living in an Asian North American city that has yet to come to terms with the genealogies of its lands and communities, and its contemporary role as a prototype of capitalist urbanism. Through a brief examination of the socioeconomic history of the city alongside a close reading of the poetics of Japanese-Canadian poet Sachiko Murakami's collection Rebuild …
Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
A delicate pellet of dust: Dissident flash fictions from contemporary Singapore
The city state of Singapore is predicated on comprehensive urban planning, beginning with colonial rule in 1819 and continuing to the present day with the 2014 Master Plan – an urban planning map that is hyperlinked down to the smallest plot of land. This plan manifests the state's pragmatic cartographies of power, which continually produce and fix Singapore's spaces in a teleological capitalist matrix, regulating how they are experienced and con…
Cherian George. Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore . Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xiii+272 p
Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore CHERIAN GEORGE Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xiii+272 p.This multi-disciplinary study of the relationship between the Singapore government and the comes from the author of one of the most widely cited books on Singapore politics in recent times. Cherian George's first book, Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation: Essays on the Politics of Comfort and Control 1990-2000 (2000), was writte…
The Future of Nostalgia: Reclaiming Memory in Tan Pin Pin’s Invisible City and Alfian Sa’at’s A History of Amnesia
Ideas of nostalgia in Singaporean writing and art often see classic themes of lost spaces, times and innocence at what sociologist Chua Beng Huat refers to as “the level of the individual biography and of collective memories”. However, contemporary Singaporean artists, who have no connection to the rural past, approach the idea of nostalgia in very different ways from their literary and artistic forebears. By analysing Tan Pin Pin’s film Invisibl…
Reading New Asian Tropicalities in Contemporary Singapore
This essay theorizes the cultivation, suppression, and cooptation of new forms of Asian tropicality in the material and cultural productions of contemporary Singapore. Originating in Anglo-American imperial discourse of the eighteenth century, tropicality suggests the social construction of the “tropics” as a space in opposition to European and North American temperate environments. Reading the material space of the massive eco-development Garden…
The Future of Nostalgia: Reclaiming Memory in Tan Pin Pin’s Invisible City and Alfian Sa’at’s A History of Amnesia
Ideas of nostalgia in Singaporean writing and art often see classic themes of lost spaces, times and innocence at what sociologist Chua Beng Huat refers to as “the level of the individual biography and of collective memories”. However, contemporary Singaporean artists, who have no connection to the rural past, approach the idea of nostalgia in very different ways from their literary and artistic forebears. By analysing Tan Pin Pin’s film Invisibl…
A delicate pellet of dust: Dissident flash fictions from contemporary Singapore
The city state of Singapore is predicated on comprehensive urban planning, beginning with colonial rule in 1819 and continuing to the present day with the 2014 Master Plan – an urban planning map that is hyperlinked down to the smallest plot of land. This plan manifests the state's pragmatic cartographies of power, which continually produce and fix Singapore's spaces in a teleological capitalist matrix, regulating how they are experienced and con…
Renovating Vancouver: Transnational Constructions and Mortgages in Sachiko Murakami's Rebuild
This article examines how Asian diasporic Vancouverite poetry explores the implications of living in an Asian North American city that has yet to come to terms with the genealogies of its lands and communities, and its contemporary role as a prototype of capitalist urbanism. Through a brief examination of the socioeconomic history of the city alongside a close reading of the poetics of Japanese-Canadian poet Sachiko Murakami's collection Rebuild …
The Future of Nostalgia: Reclaiming Memory in Tan Pin Pin’s Invisible City and Alfian Sa’at’s A History of Amnesia
Ideas of nostalgia in Singaporean writing and art often see classic themes of lost spaces, times and innocence at what sociologist Chua Beng Huat refers to as “the level of the individual biography and of collective memories”. However, contemporary Singaporean artists, who have no connection to the rural past, approach the idea of nostalgia in very different ways from their literary and artistic forebears. By analysing Tan Pin Pin’s film Invisibl…
Cherian George. Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore . Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xiii+272 p
Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore CHERIAN GEORGE Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xiii+272 p.This multi-disciplinary study of the relationship between the Singapore government and the comes from the author of one of the most widely cited books on Singapore politics in recent times. Cherian George's first book, Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation: Essays on the Politics of Comfort and Control 1990-2000 (2000), was writte…
A delicate pellet of dust: Dissident flash fictions from contemporary Singapore
The city state of Singapore is predicated on comprehensive urban planning, beginning with colonial rule in 1819 and continuing to the present day with the 2014 Master Plan – an urban planning map that is hyperlinked down to the smallest plot of land. This plan manifests the state's pragmatic cartographies of power, which continually produce and fix Singapore's spaces in a teleological capitalist matrix, regulating how they are experienced and con…
Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
Renovating Vancouver: Transnational Constructions and Mortgages in Sachiko Murakami's Rebuild
This article examines how Asian diasporic Vancouverite poetry explores the implications of living in an Asian North American city that has yet to come to terms with the genealogies of its lands and communities, and its contemporary role as a prototype of capitalist urbanism. Through a brief examination of the socioeconomic history of the city alongside a close reading of the poetics of Japanese-Canadian poet Sachiko Murakami's collection Rebuild …
Reading New Asian Tropicalities in Contemporary Singapore
This essay theorizes the cultivation, suppression, and cooptation of new forms of Asian tropicality in the material and cultural productions of contemporary Singapore. Originating in Anglo-American imperial discourse of the eighteenth century, tropicality suggests the social construction of the “tropics” as a space in opposition to European and North American temperate environments. Reading the material space of the massive eco-development Garden…
Field Notes, Fluidities, and Fictional Archives: Transmedial Photography and Singapore's Altered Coastlines
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Litorally Speaking
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