| Title | : | Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Alfian Sa'At, Faris Joraimi & Sai Siew Min |
| Release | : | 2022-08-19 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Asian History, Books, History |
| Size | : | 10602008 |
| Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka / 獨立 / சுதந்திரம் (Wild Rice, 2019). Taken together, the book shows how the contradictions of independent nationhood haunt Singaporeans' collective and personal stories about Merdeka. It points to the need for a Merdeka history: an open and fearless culture of historical reckoning that not only untangles us from colonial narratives, but proposes emancipatory possibilities. |
