The broken bodies of language and history in Vyvyane Loh’s breaking the tongue

• Main Author: Lui, Karen Jia Yi
• Other Authors: Kevin Andrew Riordan
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Literature::Singapore; Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145286
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper addresses the entanglement of language, history, and mutilated bodies in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue. Set in Singapore during the 1940s, Breaking the Tongue presents a fragmented, disorderly third-person narrative of Claude Lim, an Anglicised Singaporean-Chinese who experiences life...