Singapore Literature and Culture : Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts (Hardcover)

CONTENTS Notes on Contributors Introduction Angelia Poon and Angus Whitehead Section I Chapter One: ‘we who have no country but our century’: Wong May, Singapore-stateless Poet Angus Whitehead Chapter Two: ‘A Kind of Pursuit’: On Boey Kim Cheng’s Poetry Shirley Chew Chapter Three: Writing Urban Psychogeography: A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay Chapter Four: A City Without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark Section II Chapter Five: The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip Holden Chapter Six: Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, firstfruits, and Singapore Literature EK Tan Chapter Seven: Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui Chapter Eight: ‘Leeet lor’: Singapore Plays as Drama Paul Rae Section III Chapter Nine: Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew Chapter Ten: Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts Joanne Leow Chapter Eleven: In Praise of Failed Men (and the Woman Writer): Gender Politics in the Singapore Novel Angelia Poon Chapter Twelve: Singapore as Strategic Location: Setting and Positionality in Goh Poh Seng’s If We Dream Too Long and Lydia Kwa’s Pulse Cheryl Narumi Naruse Chapter Thirteen: Burning in Your Hands: Singapore’s Queer Literary Tradition Ng Yi-Sheng