Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read you're literally clued in to

you're literally clued in to the world around you—and everyone in it

As a community struggles to cope with the loss of the missing girl

Someone's put a bounty on Emika's head

surrounded by men vying for her affections

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Condition:Well Read you're literally clued in toWhy did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? Why did it do so with a history dating from 1299? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka (Wild