The Novel in South and South East Asia since 1945
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1458382
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198745419
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 688-page volume brings together 41 chapters to provide a sustained critical investigation of the novel in South and South East Asia since 1945. Based upon 5 years’ research involving the collection and analysis of a large body of material, it draws upon unpublished archival material in 11 national archives and libraries in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. Trips to Delhi, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore were undertaken to gather research material and run collaborative workshops for the contributors. Combining editorial and authorial work, the volume contributes substantially to research in postcolonial literature.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Tickell is the sole editor and devised and led this ambitious 41-chapter volume from its inception in 2014. Aware of the demands of covering the anglophone literary history of both South and South East Asia, Tickell worked closely with an international advisory team in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines in the initial stages. Later, Tickell convened workshops with contributors in Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong to maintain coherence and focus. Tickell’s personal contribution was extensive, and he wrote a detailed 18-page scholarly introduction, authored a chapter on Chinese women’s writing and co-authored a further chapter on history and the South East Asian novel. The volume is pioneering in its scope, and in its analysis of contiguous developments in the novel in English across both the (better-known) terrain of South Asian literary history and (less well-researched) traditions, authors and texts from South East Asia. It identifies parallel experience of migration, conflict, and political activism in both regions. One reviewer described it as ‘an impressive volume, featuring important analyses of lesser-known writers and regions’, as well as ‘foregrounding vital questions about the relationships between places and cultures, and the capacity of the novel to make sense of ongoing political and cultural shifts’. A further significant feature of the volume, developed by Tickell, is its focus on book history, on language policy, and on newer commercial genres. Its coverage of national canons and key authors was designed with general readers and students in mind. As the reviewer John Hawley in South Asian Review states: ‘The book is highly recommended not only for libraries, for whom it is essential but also for individual scholars … individual chapters … [are] especially helpful for students’.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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