PUBLICATIONS by T

PUBLICATIONS by T.Wignesan

Malaysian-Singaporean Studies

I - Memoirs

1. Victorian (pen-in-cheek) Vignettes (published online by Victorian Times and the Victoria Institution web site pagekeepers at http://stateless.freehosting.net/vignettes.htm, November 2000- January 2002)

2. The Malaysian Malaise: A Personal Journey out of the Maze.

(A Memoir), 1965. Revised 1983. ISBN 2-904428-05-4.

II - Novels (Trilogy – set in Malaysia)

3. The Night Soil Man. 1967. ISBN 2-904428-03-8.

4. K for. 1968. ISBN 2-904428-04-6.

5. The Detained, 1990. ISBN 2-904428-09-7.

III - Plays

6. The Farmer’s Boy (Performed in Seremban, Malaysia, by the Chung

Hwa Middle School, 1953)

IV - Anthology

7. Bunga Emas: An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian

Literature, 1930-1963. London: 1964. (Edited)

V - Dissertation (in French)

8. Etude comparée des littératures nationales et/ou officielles de la

Malaisie et de Singapour depuis 1941.(Université de Paris-I-

Panthéon-Sorbonne). Université de Lille:1988. 3 tomes. ISSN:0294-1767. Doctorat d'Etat. 87/PA01/0522. [Check the following URL: http://www.anrtheses.com.fr/catalogue/scat_3147.htm]

http://www.anrtheses.com.fr/catalogue/scat_3147.htm

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(Check above link for other articles which have appeared in newspapers and reviews, etc.)

SELECTED ARTICLES/CRITIQUES IN NEWSPAPERS, REVIEWS/JOURNALS AND BOOKS

1."S.Rajaratnam, His Land and Rural Folk Themes", in Malayan Times/Sunday Magazine (Kuala Lumpur), 6 May, 1962, p.2, F-H (in the series: Portraits of Malayan Writers)

2."Lee Kok Liang's World of Fiction", in Malayan Times (Kuala Lumpur), 13 May, 1962, p.2, A-D (in the series: Portraits of Malayan Writers)

3."More a Romantic than a Realist" [Introducing Wang Gungwu’s short stories], in Malayan Times (Kuala Lumpur), 20 May, 1962, p.11, D-E (in the series: Portraits of Malayan Writers)

4."History and Development of the Short Story in English - Changes in Patterns of Creative Expression", in Malayan Times (Kuala Lumpur), 3 June, 1962, p.8, A-H (in the series: Portraits of Malayan Writers)

5. "Origins and Scope of Tamil Literature in Malaysia", in Bunga Emas, Ed.T.Wignesan. London: Blond/Raybooks, 1964, pp. 240-242.

6. "Malaysia: Its Foundations", commissioned by the weekly: New Statesman (London), 16 January 1964.

7. "From Yen to U.S." (Article on the painter Ibrahim Hussein), in The Sunday Mail, (Singapore-Kuala Lumpur), 18 October 1964, p.2.

8. "The Racial Situation in Malaysia", commissioned by the weekly: New Society (The Weekly Review of Social Sciences), London, 21 May 1965.

9. "Interpreting Our Culture: Why Laurels Must Go to the Painters", in The Sunday Mail, (Singapore-Kuala Lumpur), 10 January 1965, pp.

10. "Modern Indonesian and Malaysian Literature", in ASIA: A Handbook, Ed. Guy Wint. London: A.Blond, 1966, pp. 381-388.

11. "Asian and Australasian Artists in London", commissioned by the Central Office of Information (O.P.S. Division), London, 23 November 1966. (Article N° 1303/7: Overseas Rights)

12. "Literature in Malaysia", in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, N°2 (London/University of Leeds), 1966, pp. 113-123.

13."Malaysian Plays" (Communication), in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. X, n°1 (London/University of Leeds), 1975, pp. 69-71.

14. "Malaysia and Singapore" (Critique of Malaysian poetry), in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XIII, n°1 (London/University of Leeds), 1978, pp. 81-82.

15. "Critical Forum" (Critique of Malaysian bibliography), in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XV, n°1 (Oxford/University of Leeds), 1980, pp. 138-140.

16. "Religion as Refuge or Conflict and Non-Change: The Case of the Malaysian Writer in English", in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XVI, n°1 (Oxford/University of Leeds), 1981, pp.76-86.

17. "Invisibility or Marginality: Identity Crisis in the Literatures of Malaysia and Singapore", in Komparatistische Hefte, Vol. 7 (University of Bayreuth), 1983, pp. 53-68.

18. "Writing in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei", in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XIX, n°1 (Oxford/University of Leeds), 1984, pp. 149-152.

19. Critique of The Honey Tree Song: Poems and Chants of Sarawak Dayaks by Carol Rubinstein (Ohio University Press), xxiii-380p., in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. XLV, n°4 (University of California-Berkeley et University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), August 1986, pp. 914-915.

20. "Singapour: Cité du Lion? Ou Cité de Lee?", in Le Canard Lacqué (La Revue de l'Association ASIE-EXTREME of the Institute of Political Science, rue Guillaume), N°3 (Paris), April 1989, pp.13-14 (with a cartoon)

21. Critique of Singapour 1959-1987: Genèse d'un nouveau pays industriel by Jean-Louis Margolin, in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 12, n°1 (London), January 1990, pp. 255-257.

22. "The Chimera of Malaysian and Singaporean Defence: A Preparation for Internal Strife", in Le Canard Lacqué (La revue de l'Association ASIE-EXTREME of the Institute of Political Science, rue Guillaume), N°4 (Paris), summer 1990, pp. 11-12.

23."Letter from T.Wignesan" (Critique of "Finding a Native Voice - Singapore Literature in English", in JCL, Vol. XXIV, n°1, 1989, pp. 30-48), in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XXV, n°1 (London/University of Reading), 1990, pp. 220-222.

24. " Le Pantun: un exemple de détournement créateur?", in The Journal of Comparative Poïetics/ Revue de Poïétique Comparée, Vol. II, N°1 (CNRS, Paris), 1992, pp. 50-61.

25. "Wong Phui Nam's Poïetics: Traditional Constraints in a Modernist Quest", in Proceedings of the 1991 Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, (University of Essen, Germany), 1993, pp. 271-280.

26. “ Poïetics of the Pantun ” in The Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, Vol. XII, n°2 (Madras), March 1995, pp. 1-15.

27. “ From Freak to Geek? Cultural Miscegenation: Connections and Contradictions between “ Native ” and “ Foster ” Mother Cultures in Shirley Lim’s Writings ”, in Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, Vol. XIII, n°1 (Madras), September 1995, pp. 45-56.

28. “ Problems of Recording Verisimilar Speech in Malaysian and Singaporean Writing: A Comparative Study in Traditional and Postcolonial Accomodations”. [Paper given at the New Literatures in English Conference at Flinders University, South Australia, September 1994. Published in The Journal of the Instituteof Asian Studies in June 2007: http://stateless.freehosting.net/VerisimilarSpeech.htm ]

29. “ The Extent of the Influence of Tamil on the Malay Language: A Comparative Study ”, in Proceedings of the VIIIth World Conference-Seminar on Tamil Studies. Tanjavur, India: Tamil University, 1997. [Published in The Asianists’ Asia Supplement in 2001]and in "KUMARIKKANDAM", Vol. I to IV (Lyon, France), Ed. by Sampath Edouard for "Les Perles de l'Inde", Nov.-Dec. 2004 & Jan.-Feb. 2005 & in the Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies (Chennai, India), Vol. XIX, n° 1, Sept. 2001 [2006], pp. 1-26.

30. “Na Tian Piet’s Sha’er of the Late Sultan Abu Bakar”, translated with an introduction by T.Wignesan in The Gombak Review, Vol. 4, N° 2 (International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur), 1999, pp. 101-121.

31. “ The forlorn destiny of a Malay Nationalist Precursor "Isako-san" Haji Muhammad in "Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Malaysian Literature" Kuala Lumpur, 2007.

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