Catherine Lim: manufacturing voice in multilingual Singapore and Malaysia.

From: East-West Connections | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Watson, Faith C. | Copyright information

Abstract

This is a detailed course description of a reading and writing course, using texts by Singapore writer Catherine Lim, in which students will become familiar with the history of Singapore and Malaysia, working closely with Lim's texts to find evidence and then write authoritatively about colonialism, women, language and education and religions of Singapore and Malaysia; students will also identify Lim's varied uses of voice and use the information about voice to ...

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