Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap - Softcover
This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's most accomplished and important writers.
A hitherto neglected facet of Yap’s opus, his eight short stories are deceptive in their simplicity, housing within their sparse prose a complex engagement with Singapore society from which he wrote. With his signature minimalistic style, Yap simultaneously perplexes readers with stories of seemingly plotless ambiguity, yet draws them in with familiar characters playing out situations that still resonate in twenty-first century Singapore today.
Angus Whitehead’s introduction highlights literary nuances in the stories and frames the stories within the wider backdrop of social change of Singapore at the time of Yap’s writing. The meticulous critical apparatus make this book of interest to not only the general reader but also students of Singapore and Southeast Asian literature in English.
A hitherto neglected facet of Yap’s opus, his eight short stories are deceptive in their simplicity, housing within their sparse prose a complex engagement with Singapore society from which he wrote. With his signature minimalistic style, Yap simultaneously perplexes readers with stories of seemingly plotless ambiguity, yet draws them in with familiar characters playing out situations that still resonate in twenty-first century Singapore today.
Angus Whitehead’s introduction highlights literary nuances in the stories and frames the stories within the wider backdrop of social change of Singapore at the time of Yap’s writing. The meticulous critical apparatus make this book of interest to not only the general reader but also students of Singapore and Southeast Asian literature in English.
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Arthur YAP (1943-2006) is one of Singapore's most important poets. He was also a painter and a writer of short stories. In 1983, he was awarded the Cultural Medallion for his contributions to literature in Singapore.
Angus WHITEHEAD is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Angus WHITEHEAD is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Arthur Yap's manner slides surreptitiously between detachment and an undermining sense of ironic understatement, as he exposes the half-truths, even the utter void, existing at the heart of human interactions ... --Cyril Wong, author of 'Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light'
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- PublisherNational University of Singapore Press
- Publication date2014
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- ISBN 13 9789971697914
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- Number of pages100
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