Historically, Singapore was home to a heterogeneous and highly multilingual population from across the Asian region and elsewhere in the world. In contrast with its historical past, or even the early days of the post-colonial period, Singapore’s earlier diverse and linguistically heterogeneous society has evolved into a multi-ethnic nation state, with four official languages, of which three are...

Bakhtin's understanding of heteroglossia shows us, that a language can neither be closed system separated from other languages, nor the border(s) are fluid and have to go crazy every now then, but use borders in sense monolingualism serves normative verification or obsolete identifications. With help concept desiring-machines by Deleuze Guattari, this paper I want map polyphonic literature Jame...

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