Jason Eng Hun Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 384103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Eng Hun Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason Eng Hun |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9341-3968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Africa Pulse’
The Fall of Melaka
On not writing back
In this article, two contemporary writers, Jason Eng Hun Lee and Sreedhevi Iyer, combine to reflect on emerging issues in their writing practice as deterritorialized writers with connections to Malaysia. Unlike earlier generations of post-independence writers, neither Lee nor Iyer "writes back" to the former colonial centre nor, despite their designation as "Malaysian writers" by commercial publishers, do they "write back" to their condition as s…
The creative disjunctures of twenty-first century global storytelling
This essay argues that Tokyo Cancelled (2005) paradoxically seeks to resist the very forms of world-making totality implied in its narration by rendering the world simultaneously as knowable and unfathomable, flat and uneven. Featuring an ensemble of narratives that are locally-grounded yet part of a wider global network, Tokyo Cancelled activates a series of creative disjunctures via its decentred narrative structure and use of irrealist storyte…
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
On not writing back
In this article, two contemporary writers, Jason Eng Hun Lee and Sreedhevi Iyer, combine to reflect on emerging issues in their writing practice as deterritorialized writers with connections to Malaysia. Unlike earlier generations of post-independence writers, neither Lee nor Iyer "writes back" to the former colonial centre nor, despite their designation as "Malaysian writers" by commercial publishers, do they "write back" to their condition as s…
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
City Poetics
Shirley Geok-lin Lim has published extensively across a range of literary genres, including life writing, non-fiction, novels, poetry and short stories. An important voice in Asian American literat
Writing Singapore
Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia , and Mother of All Questions , the short-story collection Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food , and a novel, The Wanderlusters . She is also the editor of We R Family , an anthology about alternative families. Her work has been anthologized in many publications and translated into German, French, Serbo-Croat, Chinese, and Portuguese. The 2011–2012 NACNTU Writer-in-Resid…
The creative disjunctures of twenty-first century global storytelling
This essay argues that Tokyo Cancelled (2005) paradoxically seeks to resist the very forms of world-making totality implied in its narration by rendering the world simultaneously as knowable and unfathomable, flat and uneven. Featuring an ensemble of narratives that are locally-grounded yet part of a wider global network, Tokyo Cancelled activates a series of creative disjunctures via its decentred narrative structure and use of irrealist storyte…
Africa Pulse’
The Fall of Melaka
On not writing back
In this article, two contemporary writers, Jason Eng Hun Lee and Sreedhevi Iyer, combine to reflect on emerging issues in their writing practice as deterritorialized writers with connections to Malaysia. Unlike earlier generations of post-independence writers, neither Lee nor Iyer "writes back" to the former colonial centre nor, despite their designation as "Malaysian writers" by commercial publishers, do they "write back" to their condition as s…
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