{"product_id":"raffles-renounced-towards-a-merdeka-history","title":"Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Editors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy 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?\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRaffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e answers these questions through\u003c\/span\u003e essays by historians, literary scholars and artists. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play \u003cem\u003eMerdeka\u003c\/em\u003e \/ 獨立 \/ சுதந்திரம் by Wild Rice in 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, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfian Sa’at\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the Resident Playwright of Wild Rice. His plays with Wild Rice include \u003cem\u003eHotel\u003c\/em\u003e (with Marcia Vanderstraaten), The Asian Boys Trilogy, \u003cem\u003eCooling\u003c\/em\u003e-\u003cem\u003eOff\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDay\u003c\/em\u003e, The Optic Trilogy, \u003cem\u003eHomesick\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMerdeka\u003c\/em\u003e \/ 獨立 \/ சுதந்திரம் (with Neo Hai Bin). He was the winner of the Golden Point Award for Poetry and the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His publications include \u003cem\u003eCollected Plays One, Two, and Three\u003c\/em\u003e; poetry collections \u003cem\u003eOne Fierce Hour\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA History of Amnesia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Manuscript\u003c\/em\u003e; and short-story collections \u003cem\u003eCorridor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMalay Sketches\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaris Joraimi\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis pursuing his BA(Hons) in History at the Yale-NUS College. His research interests lie in the narrative traditions, cultural politics and intellectual history of the Malay world. He hopes to pursue graduate studies and explore ways in which texts and their materiality reflect broader processes of exchange, circulation and consumption in the early modern Nusantara. He has written for a number of platforms, including s\/pores, Mynah Magazine, New Naratif, Karyawan, Passage, Budi Kritik and 天下 (Commonwealth Magazine, Taiwan). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSai Siew Min\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a Taipei-based Singaporean historian who researches Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia with a focus on imperial formation in Southeast Asia, the cultural politics of colonialism and nationalism, language, race and Chineseness. She is a founder member of the s\/pores collective. Her essays on historiography in Singapore have appeared online in s\/pores: new directions in Singapore Studies. Her academic writings have appeared in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Journal of Chinese Overseas, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. She is also co-editor of the book Reassessing Chinese Indonesians: History, Religion and Belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32294816546929,"sku":"9789811420382","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/covermockup_1_1024x1024_2x_a5275fe5-ac95-47a0-b3de-18f98c0acfb3.png?v=1611725216","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/raffles-renounced-towards-a-merdeka-history","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}