State of Engagement: Filipino and Singaporean Women Writers in English Engage the State

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  • Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines, Diliman

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https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v1i1.437

Abstract

The late twentieth century can be said to be the period of the newly independent states. Many of these states, Southeast Asian states included, have acquired full sovereignty from former colonisers to begin their lives as young nations. Nation formation became the most significant activity after the end of the colonial rule, an ending marked by a peaceful transfer of power or by a violent struggle for independence.

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Lily Rose Tope, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Lily Rose Tope teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines. She is author of (Un)Framing Southeast Asia: Nationalism and the Post Colonial Text in English in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines (1998) and various articles on Southeast Asian literatures in English. She was past editor of Humanities Diliman and is current editor of the e-journal of the Asian Scholarship Foundation. Her research interests include Asian literature and Filipino-Chinese literature.

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Published

2007-12-15

How to Cite

Tope, University of the Philippines, Diliman, L. R. (2007). State of Engagement: Filipino and Singaporean Women Writers in English Engage the State. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v1i1.437

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