Philip Jeyaretnam: Literary Relations -- Source, Influence, Confluence

• The Novel of the Wasted Life: Abraham's Promise and The Remains of the Day
• Narrative Positioning: The Teacher Looks Back in Abraham's Promise and Waterland
• Food and Memory in Abraham's Promise, A Candle or the Sun, and Meatless Days
• Destructions of Language in Abraham's Promise, Anthills of the Savannah, and Shame
• Books and the Culture of the Book in Jeyaretnam, Achebe, Hove, Mungoshi, and Vera
• Tea Bags, Progress, and Character: Food and Mourning Progress in Soyinka and Jeyaretnam
• The Significance of Uselessness: Resisting Colonial Masculinity in Philip Jeyaretnam's Abraham's Promise

Last Modified: 26 March, 2002