Reconstructing identities: A social history of the Babas in Singapore

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Introduction: research story relations of otherness - researcher as a foreigner and stranger methods. Part 1 Approaching Babas: shortcomings of a definitory approach an alternative approach - reconstructing identities via discursive analysis cultural terms and their history cultural discourse about Babas'. Part 2 A social and political history of Singapore Babas - from early beginnings until Japanese occupation: before 1819 - question of origin early Babas of Singapore - 1819 to 1894 from Baba Awakening until wake of Japanese occupation (1894-1941). Part 3 A social and political history of Singapore Babas - from Japanese occupation until 1994: 1942-1959 - from Syonan to self-rule from politics to culture (from 1959 onwards). Part 4 Cultures: Baba Culture in pre-1819 period - a tabla rasa predecessors of reified Culture Model Culture - Golden Age of Babas? changes in Baba Culture during and after Japanese occupation between and revival of Baba Culture. Part 5 Languages pre-1819 period - malay precedes Babas making of English as a second language of Babas and myth of Babas' inability to speak Chinese (1819-94) 1819-94 - Malay and English as complementary languages increased importance of Chinese and decline of Malay (1942-59) further changes from 1959 - from Malay to English and from Malay to Mandarin. Part 6 Identities: was Dr Lim Boon Keng a Baba? - a case study identities. Epilogue: future of the Babas.

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