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Nuraliah Norasid 3
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Communication, Culture, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Nuraliah Norasid discusses how she conceived of the languages in The Gatekeeper in relation to the physical bodies of the different races and their social organisations. She explains her decision to use the medusa as a central figure in the novel.
Nuraliah Norasid 1
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Re/development, Gentrification, Planning & Design, Housing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Nuraliah Norasid talks about the underground settlement Nelroote in her novel, The Gate Keeper, and compares it to Singapore's history of displacing residents to build new housing.
Nuraliah Norasid 2
Title
Nuraliah Norasid 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Re/development, liminality, Housing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
Nuraliah Norasid discusses the temporal shift in her novel, The Gatekeeper, and how it relates to her experience of Singapore's rapid development in the late twentieth century.
Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Title
Nuraliah Norasid Reading an Excerpt from The Gatekeeper
Keyword
Migration, Language, Diversity, Culture, Community, Convergence, Arrival, Settlement, Land, Space, Colonialism, Movement, Government, Displacement, Accelerated Change, Singapore, Communication, Modernization, Discrimination, Stratification, Marginalization, Writing
Date
2018-02-27
Description
In this recording, Nuraliah Norasid reads an excerpt from her novel The GateKeeper. Norasid raises topics of culture, settlement, discrimination, and development--depicting the colonial reality of spaces and the accelerated changes such a reality brings with it.