The broken bodies of language and history in Vyvyane Loh’s breaking the tongue
This paper addresses the entanglement of language, history, and mutilated bodies in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue. Set in Singapore during the 1940s, Breaking the Tongue presents a fragmented, disorderly third-person narrative of Claude Lim, an Anglicised Singaporean-Chinese who experiences life...
Main Author: | Lui, Karen Jia Yi |
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Other Authors: | Kevin Andrew Riordan |
Format: | Thesis-Master by Research |
Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145286 |
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