ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the representation of food in the Singaporean graphic memoir. Although Singapore is a multilingual nation, this chapter recognizes that English is one of its national languages and that it not only has a significant literature in English, but also that this has received relatively little international attention (Pang 2010; Poon et al. 2009). This analysis focuses on published Singaporean graphic memoirs in English, as well as academic and other materials available in the public domain, supplemented by personal observation. Whenever possible, Singaporean and other Asian scholarship has been drawn upon, although the focus is on discussing the representation of food in Singaporean graphic memoirs, rather than on reviewing (the few) scholarly analyses of these works. Moreover, while Singaporean memoirs, whether textual or graphic, are only just beginning to attract scholarly notice (see Brien 2014; Evans 2015; Leong-Salobir 2015; Duruz 2016), they are an increasingly visible component of Singaporean cultural production. It is also to be noted that the Republic of Singapore is a relatively young nation, gaining full independence from Malaysia in 1965, after more than a century of colonial rule by the British from 1819–1942.
