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Responsibility and Commitment
The author examines the changing thematic and stylistic concerns in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Ee identifies and analyses in the context of social and historical change.
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Edwin Thumboo
Correspondence with Edwin Thumboo concerning visit to Flinders.
The Votive Pen
A riveting look at the fiercely original, intellectually brilliant mind of Singapore's unofficial Poet-Laureate, Edwin Thumboo whose poetry is key to understanding the emotional hinterland of the city-state. Born of Tamil and Teochew parents, Edwin Thumboo embraced the Protestant faith late in his life. He has a self-confessed fetish for Yeats and Pound and yet completed his doctoral thesis on post-colonial African poetry. He taught himself the Ramayana and I-Ching but found traces of the Odysseus in the shadows of the Merlion. He is brusquely vocal about poetry with a purpose and yet appears a hopeless romantic in his poems about his wife. What happens when a mind which is such a melting pot of brilliant ideas and contrary emotions tries to unscramble the identity of a country like Singapore which is complex, multiracial, has known a fierce economic growth that has often elbowed aside everything else? The Votive Pen sets out to see Edwin Thumboo's poetry steadily and see it whole--without the intervening static of earlier critical writing and with an intense alertness to the text.
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Ariels
A collection of essays written in honour of Emeritus Professor Thumboo. This volume consists of 27 articles, one short story and one poem -- all of which were contributed by scholars whose careers and lives have, in various ways, linked with Professor Thumboo. The collection represents what is probably the most comprehensive analysis and scholarship on Thumboo's creative and academic work. It reflects the wide range of his interests: poetry, sociolinguistics, post-colonialism and new literatures, especially those of Singapore, Malaysia, India and Africa. This volume is a possible required reading text for a number of university courses, such as Southeast Asian Studies, Sociolinguistics, Singapore-Malaysian Studies, Post-colonial Theory and others.
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