Background
Arthur Yap was born on January 11, 1943 in Singapore. He was the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife.
15 Francis Thomas Dr, Singapore 359342
Arthur Yap attended St Andrew's School.
21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore 119077
Arthur Yap earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the National University of Singapore in 1965.
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Arthur Yap earned a master's degree in Linguistics and English Language Teaching at the University of Leeds in England in 1975.
(This volume marks the recovery and first combined publica...)
This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's most accomplished and important writers. A hitherto neglected facet of Yap’s opus, his eight short stories are deceptive in their simplicity, housing within their sparse prose a complex engagement with Singapore society from which he wrote. With his signature minimalistic style, Yap simultaneously perplexes readers with stories of seemingly plotless ambiguity, yet draws them in with familiar characters playing out situations that still resonate in twenty-first century Singapore today.
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(This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and a...)
This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and artist Arthur Yap is dedicated to his multifaceted creative work and makes it accessible to both general and academic readers. It features new and innovative essays on Yap's prose, poetry and paintings by an international group of scholars and critics. The essays approach Yap's work through literary and analytical methods drawn from postcolonial criticism, ecocriticism, studies of urban spaces, visual art and sexuality, with particular consideration for how his work contributes to a specifically Singaporean form of postcolonial critique.
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Arthur Yap was born on January 11, 1943 in Singapore. He was the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife.
Arthur Yap attended St Andrew's School and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1965 at the National University of Singapore, after which he won a British Council scholarship to study at the University of Leeds in England. At Leeds Arthur earned a master's degree in Linguistics and English Language Teaching in 1975, later obtaining his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 1984.
Arthur Yap was a lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, the National University of Singapore between the years 1979 and 1998. Between 1992 and 1996, Yap served as a mentor with the Creative Arts Programme run by the Ministry of Education to help inspire students and nurture young writers at local secondary schools and junior colleges.
In addition, Yap served as the general editor of literary magazine Singa, first published in 1981.
Yap was also a poet. Yap's poetry is distinctive for an unusual linguistic playfulness and subtlety that is able to bridge the rhythms of Singlish with the precision of acrolectic English. Unsurprisingly, the craft of Yap's voice has the admiration of other writers.
His first collection of poems "Only Lines" was published in 1971, when he was 28. His second collection "Commonplace" was published in 1972. Besides, selected poems of his are on the reading lists of West Virginia University and New York University Sydney.
Yap was also a painter. His passion for painting began in 1967 when he was working as a Pre-University English Literature teacher at the Serangoon Gardens English School. During the weekends he would pick up the brush, expressing himself through his abstract works of art.
On 13 April 1969 Arthur Yap held his first solo art exhibition featuring 44 square abstract paintings at the National Library in Stamford Road. Yap went on to have a total of seven solo exhibitions in Singapore, as well as participating in group exhibitions in Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia. Yap's paintings were also chosen to represent Singapore at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1972.
(This collection of essays on the Singaporean writer and a...)
(This volume marks the recovery and first combined publica...)