Off-Center Articulations

PRISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1215/25783491-9966687
C. Chan
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Recent studies on Singapore Chinese literature have employed analytical lenses such as the Sinophone and postloyalism, which are exogenous to the historical and everyday experiences in the region that produced the texts. This article proposes using the lens of the Chinese-educated to bridge local self-understandings with extralocal modes of interpretation, in order to better illuminate place-specific writing practices. As a salient category of both lived experience and analysis by local researchers, the category of the Chinese-educated occasions a form of “off-center articulation” that maintains strategic distance from Sinophone studies while also enriching the field's conceptual repertoire. Specifically, this analytical perspective highlights how literary representations of social class play a significant role, alongside language and ethnicity, in registering the historical diversity of the Singapore Chinese community. Through examining Singaporean Chinese writer Chia Joo Ming's novel Exile or Pursuit (2015), this article reinterprets the novel's gallery of characters and depictions of interpersonal relations to elicit fading memories of socioeconomic divides and gaps in cultural attainment among ethnic Chinese Singaporeans and their migrant predecessors. It ends by charting future directions for Southeast Asian Chinese literary studies that collectively track a broader locus of “Chinese-educated” literary and cultural practices, and that promote critical inter-referencing within the region.
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最近对新加坡华文文学的研究使用了诸如华语和后忠诚主义等分析镜头,这些镜头与产生文本的地区的历史和日常经验无关。本文建议以受过中文教育的人的视角,在本地自我理解与外地解释模式之间架起一座桥梁,以便更好地阐释因地制宜的写作实践。作为本地研究人员的生活经验和分析的一个突出类别,受中文教育的类别提供了一种“偏离中心的发音”形式,与华语研究保持战略距离,同时也丰富了该领域的概念曲目。具体来说,这种分析视角强调了社会阶层的文学表现,以及语言和种族,在记录新加坡华人社区的历史多样性方面发挥了重要作用。本文通过考察新加坡华裔作家贾周明的小说《流亡还是追求》(2015),重新解读小说中的人物和对人际关系的描绘,以唤起人们对新加坡华裔及其移民前辈之间社会经济鸿沟和文化成就差距的淡忘。最后,它描绘了东南亚华人文学研究的未来方向,这些研究共同追踪了更广泛的“华人教育”文学和文化实践的轨迹,并促进了该地区批判性的相互参照。
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