The spinster’s bad faith and misdirection strategies in Catherine Lim’s The English Language Teacher’s Secret
Catherine Lim’s The English Language Teacher’s Secret (1987) features Sylvie Ponniah as a spinster during The Graduate Woman phenomenon in Singapore during the mid 1980s. While unaffected by the government’s matchmaking efforts and the excitement of the people around her, the story revealed Sylvie’s...
| Main Authors: | Mohd Nor, Nabilah, Talif, Rosli, Mani, Manimangai |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
2017
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54074/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54074/1/The%20spinster%E2%80%99s%20bad%20faith%20and%20misdirection%20strategies%20in%20Catherine%20Lim%E2%80%99s%20The%20English%20Language%20Teacher%E2%80%99s%20Secret.pdf |
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