A Man and an Island: Gender and Nation in Lee Kuan Yew's the Singapore Story

Holden, Philip

doi:10.1353/bio.2001.0033

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“…This draws upon previous research on the intersections between nationalism and masculinity with Nagel (1998, p. 261) establishing that there is an "intimate link between nationalism and masculinity". Maxwell 2015, Holden (2001) and Karlin (2002) also explore this "intimate link," thereby accounting for unique cultural intricacies found in different national contexts. These works provide an ample framework to further unpack the nationalistic aspect of the emerging masculinity in the Age of Duterte.…”

Section: Mcs -Masculinities and Social Change 265mentioning

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Masculinity in the Age of (Philippine) Populism: Spectacle, Hypermasculinity, and Rodrigo Duterte

Chavez

Pacheco

2020

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Recently, the resurrection of authoritarian tendencies in the form of populist movements has conscripted the fascistic aesthetic for its purposes. The rise of populism coincides with the rise of the digital world with its rapid mobility of images and text. Consequently, this has offered an effective platform for the dissemination of a new populist aesthetic. In a specific Philippine post-colonial context, how might we reflect and look at the aesthetics of populism? In this paper, we examine Rodrigo Duterte’s deployment of spectacle, sign, and symbol drawing from the critical resources of psychoanalytic and semiotic theory. Our position is that hegemonic masculinity is able to repackage itself depending on the contingencies of the historical moment. Furthermore, we argue that the new aesthetic of populism in the Age of Duterte reformulates the old iterations of masculinity to maintain its dominance over the Philippine socio-cultural present.

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Section: Mcs -Masculinities and Social Change 265mentioning

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Masculinity in the Age of (Philippine) Populism: Spectacle, Hypermasculinity, and Rodrigo Duterte

Chavez

Pacheco

2020

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“…Turnbull's () A History of Singapore, 1819–1988 and Ernest Chew and Edwin Lee's () A History of Singapore , it was the first prime minister's autobiography – The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (Lee ) – that took centre stage in the Singapore Story. This can be seen from its ‘immediate use in both full and abridged form in schools as part of the National Education initiative’ (Holden :404). The fact that the same name was shared by both Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography and the national narrative reflected the simultaneous relationship of synecdoche and metonym (Hong and Huang :31).…”

Section: Re‐orient: Singapore Story In National Educationmentioning

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On Orientalist Terms: Malays in Singapore and Textbook Prescriptions

Miharja

2014

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This article examines the influence of Orientalism on Singaporean historiography, specifically on textbook representations of the indigenous Malay population and the implications for the wider historical imagination. Central to analysing such Orientalist influence is a critical reflection on changes in the way the minority Malays have been portrayed from pre-separation to National Education textbook narratives. The article finds that Orientalist portrayals of the Malays that started during colonial times have been sustained through an increasingly Sinocentric national narrative. Common to both colonial and postcolonial history is the reliance on Orientalism as the dominant mode of discourse.

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“…Analysing Lee's memoirs, Philip Holden argues that Lee is characteristic of Third World national elites who, on achieving independent nationhood, embark on producing national cultures through disciplinary projects, especially educative ones that 'outdid those of the colonial state'. 112 What seems peculiar…”

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Educating multicultural citizens: Colonial nationalism, imperial citizenship and education in late colonial Singapore

Sai¹

2012

J. Southeast Asian stud.

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This article recounts the unusual history of a national idea in late colonial Singapore from the 1930s to the early 1950s before Singapore's attainment of partial self-government in 1955. Using two different concepts, namely ‘colonial nationalism’ and ‘imperial citizenship’, it offers a genealogy of nationalism in Singapore, one that calls into question the applicability of prevailing theories of anti-colonial nationalism to the Singapore-in-Malaya context. Focusing on colonial nationalism, the article provides a historical account of English-mediated official multiculturalism through tracking shifting British colonial priorities, ideologies of governance and challenges to its authority in Singapore. This account is rarely appreciated in Singapore today given official scripting of national history that abets particular amnesias with regards to its multicultural nationhood.

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A Man and an Island: Gender and Nation in Lee Kuan Yew's the Singapore Story

Cited by 20 publications

References 40 publications

Masculinity in the Age of (Philippine) Populism: Spectacle, Hypermasculinity, and Rodrigo Duterte

Masculinity in the Age of (Philippine) Populism: Spectacle, Hypermasculinity, and Rodrigo Duterte

On Orientalist Terms: Malays in Singapore and Textbook Prescriptions

Educating multicultural citizens: Colonial nationalism, imperial citizenship and education in late colonial Singapore

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