Table of Contents

Introduction Angus Whitehead and Angelia Poon

1. Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui

2. "We who have no country but our century": Wong May, Singapore-stateless Poet Angus Whitehead

3. The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip Holden

4. Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew

5. Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, FirstFruits, and Singapore Literature E.K. Tan

6. The Politics and Poetics of Location in Contemporary Diasporic Singapore Fiction Cheryl Narumi Naruse

7. ‘A Kind of Pursuit’: On Boey Kim Cheng’s poetry Shirley Chew

8. A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay

9. A City without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark

10. "Burning In Your Hands": Queer Literature in Singapore Ng Yi-Sheng

11. In Praise of Failed Men: the Singapore Novel and the Politics of Masculinity Angelia Poon

12. Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts Joanne Leow

About the Author

Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of English Literature and Deputy Head of the English Language and Literature Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Angus Whitehead is Assistant Professor in the department of English Language & Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.