Rediscovering the past and reconstructing the future through literature, poetry and drama : identity crisis in Alfian Sa’at’s works.

• Main Author: Zur Amira Aisha Mohammad Zainudin.
• Other Authors: Wee Wan-Ling, Christopher Justin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52225
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The issue of a disjuncture between being Singaporean and being Malay is explored in Alfian Sa’at’s poetic and dramatic literature, and I will be looking at his poetry, namely “Jebat Slays the Dragon” and “Sang Nila by Moonlight” in One Fierce Hour (OFH), “Minority Report” in A History of Amnesia, an...