Abstract
The events surrounding the arrest of activists involved in an alleged Marxist conspiracy in 1987 in Singapore have an overdetermined place within both internal and external conceptions of public space and civil society in the Southeast Asian city‐state. Two novels, Gopal Baratham’s A Candle or the Sun and Lau Siew Mei’s Playing Madame Mao, which represent the conspiracy, enable us to question the various historical narratives in which the events are placed. Such fiction, however, may not be unproblematically oppositional. In making a political intervention, it may leave other discursive formations—here, notably, governmental constructions of race and culture—unchallenged.
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