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The Sinophone as Lyrical Aesthetics Redefined

Published:2020-06-29 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Container-title:The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
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Author:

Seng Chow Teck¹

Affiliation:

1. the University of Cambridge

Abstract

This chapter attempts to demonstrate how Sinophone studies, Sinoscripts and lyrical aesthetics can help interpret contemporary Singapore Chinese poetry. Three interconnected case studies are used to highlight how various virtual ‘spaces’ of the city state are actualized as poetics. They include Liang Yue’s ‘To the Bronze Statue of Raffles’, which highlights how poetics is created with multicultural historical resources that are utilized as cultural symbols; ‘LOST’ by Xi Ni Er, in which different written scripts, modernist and post-modernist rhetoric, and visual meta-poetics are used; and Chow Teck Seng’s ‘We Speak to Fish using National Languages’, an ekphrasis which sees dialogues between languages, media and art forms, and layered historical contexts. These various poetic spaces complete the poems, giving them second lives through unlimited reincarnations.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

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