Lit nation

• Main Authors: Ng, Andrea Li-Ting, Wee, Smita Shu Min, Catherine Jane Nicholas, Nur Diyanah Abdul Aziz
• Other Authors: Debbie Goh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities; DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66796
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The roots of literature in Singapore stretch back to the island’s colonial past, when it was used to teach students the values of their English colonial masters. When Singapore gained independence in 1965, there was less of a need to study such values, neither was there space for an art form seen to...