ABSTRACT This essay analyses two Singaporean graphic novels which represent the motivations and processes of creating and marketing cartoons, Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015), a retrospective of the life and work of a fictional artist, and Troy Chin's ongoing autobiographical series, The Resident Tourist (begun in 2007). The analysis focuses on how Liew and Chin represent creative work and its relationship to Singaporean identity, focusing on how each negotiates one of the central contradictions of the creative industries in Singapore, the problem of how creativity can be conceptualised and practised within a society in which, for decades, pragmatism has been systematically valued and imagination devalued. There are three main ways in which both Liew and Chin construct, in very different ways, new creative worker and Singaporean identities which resonate with readers around the post-industrial world. The first is through subtle challenges to the Western, individualised ‘genius’ model of the creative worker. The second is through the creation of modes of address that encompass both Singaporean and non-Singaporean readers, and make all readers complicit in the project of constructing Singaporean identity. Third, both Liew and Chin reimagine the relationship between Singaporean and creative worker identities through simultaneously using and subverting the idea of national allegory.

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在新加坡图画小说中代表创造性劳动和身份：Sonny Liew 和 Troy Chin

摘要 本文分析了两本新加坡图画小说，它们代表了创作和营销卡通的动机和过程，Sonny Liew 的 The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (2015)，一个虚构艺术家的生活和工作回顾，以及 Troy Chin 正在进行的自传系列，居民游客（始于 2007 年）。分析的重点是 Liew 和 Chin 如何代表创意工作及其与新加坡身份的关系，重点是每个人如何解决新加坡创意产业的核心矛盾之一，如何在一个社会中概念化和实践创造力的问题。几十年来，实用主义被系统地重视，想象力被贬低。Liew 和 Chin 以三种主要的方式构建，以非常不同的方式，新的创意工作者和新加坡人的身份与后工业世界的读者产生共鸣。第一个是通过对西方创意工作者个性化“天才”模式的微妙挑战。二是通过创建涵盖新加坡和非新加坡读者的称呼方式，让所有读者参与构建新加坡身份的项目。第三，Liew 和 Chin 通过同时使用和颠覆民族寓言的理念，重新构想了新加坡人和创意工作者身份之间的关系。二是通过创建涵盖新加坡和非新加坡读者的称呼方式，让所有读者参与构建新加坡身份的项目。第三，Liew 和 Chin 通过同时使用和颠覆民族寓言的理念，重新构想了新加坡人和创意工作者身份之间的关系。二是通过创建涵盖新加坡和非新加坡读者的称呼方式，让所有读者参与构建新加坡身份的项目。第三，Liew 和 Chin 通过同时使用和颠覆民族寓言的理念，重新构想了新加坡人和创意工作者身份之间的关系。