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June 04, 2003
Oh dear.
While doing my research on Postcolonial fictions, I saw this journal article:
"Singaporean poets have not found an audience. Although the actual size of the poetry-reading public is difficult to ascertain, it is inducbitably very small, and confined pretty much to people educated in the English department of the University of Singapore. Poetry is consequently associated with a certain sort of elitism, though one not officially encouraged. Indeed, the official view puts poetry firmly in its place as frivolous activity, 'a luxury we cannot afford,' as Mr Lee Kuan Yew said in 1969, suggesting the paramount importance of material development..."
Fodder for discussion? Definitely.
Posted by lainey at June 4, 2003 05:36 PM