Merlion : postcolonializing Judith Butler in Alfian Sa'at's Asian Boys trilogy.

• Main Author: Nurul Ain Yahya.
• Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Singapore
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15218
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Alfian’s Asian Boys trilogy, like this thesis, figures into the analogy of the Merlion – a hybrid of two seemingly impossible notions – Singaporean and gay. The reinvention refers to Alfian’s queer approach to postcolonial plays that use the local Singaporean-English slang to discuss familiar postco...