Separate Futures: Cold War Decolonization in Mohamed Latiff Mohamed's Confrontation and Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock-Chye

[...]the Cold War's new front lines between the U.S.- and Soviet-aligned blocs can be understood as yet another mode of separation that profoundly affects the process of decolonization. Without a more robust sense of the tensions and contestations around these Cold War states, we miss the impor...

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Published in:Discourse (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2018-04, Vol.40 (2), p.165-187
Main Author: Watson, Jini Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alcoholism
Allegory
Authorship
Autobiographies
Bildungsroman
Biographies
Capitalism
Child Abuse
Cold War
Colonialism
Communitarianism
Community Relations
Decolonization
Essays
Ethnic Groups
Fate
Graphic novels
Heroism & heroes
Indigenous Populations
Inks
Laborers
Liberalism
Liew, Sonny
Literary characters
Literary criticism
Literary devices
Literary Genres
Literary translation
Literature
Logic
Massacres
Migrants
Mohamed, Mohamed Latiff
Narratives
Nationalism
Novels
Pedagogy
Plot (Narrative)
Political parties
Postcolonialism
Pragmatics
Speculative fiction
Violence
Violent crime
War
Yew
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Summary:[...]the Cold War's new front lines between the U.S.- and Soviet-aligned blocs can be understood as yet another mode of separation that profoundly affects the process of decolonization. Without a more robust sense of the tensions and contestations around these Cold War states, we miss the important ways in which they constituted contingent responses to a new global reorganization and cannot be explained away as an illiberal, transitional mode of capitalism. [...]forms birthed by Cold War decolonization and developmentalism are today evident in many sites around the global South: in the frenzy for export-oriented development, the craze for special economic zones, the deferral of democracy, and the optimization of both domestic and migrant labor forces for foreign direct investment.21 While we may assume that we live in postcolonial times, it may be harder to say that we are now postCold War. First is Lee Kwan Yew, the Cambridge-educated anticolonial lawyer who became the pragmatic and autocratic leader of PAP, leading the country for three decades and widely known as the "Father of Singapore." [...]as Liew himself tells us in the small firstperson strip placed along the bottom gutter of Chan's virulently anti-PAP strip "Sinkapor Inks," Chan decides to "sever all links with the public sphere and patronage" to ensure "true freedom of expression.
ISSN:1522-5321
1536-1810
DOI:10.13110/discourse.40.2.0165