05141nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-63455-0 DE-He213 20251030113034.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240911s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031634550 978-3-031-63455-0 10.1007/978-3-031-63455-0 doi PJ305.2-489 DS bicssc 1F bicssc LIT008000 bisacsh DS 1F thema Poon, Angelia. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84044 Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature [electronic resource] : Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21st Century / by Angelia Poon. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 214 p. 37 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Growing Pains: Minority Subjects in Singapore in Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance and Sugarbread -- Chapter 3 Upending Knowledge: Decoloniality in Alfian Sa’at’s Malay Sketches and Merdeka/ 獨⽴ /சுதந்திரம் -- Chapter 4 Facing the World: Global Capitalism, Wealth Preservation and the Singapore Chinese Family in Crazy Rich Asians and Soy Sauce for Beginners -- Chapter 5 Form and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Reading Claire Tham’s The Inlet and Akshita Nanda’s Nimita’s Place -- Chapter 6 Tapping into Weird: Contemporary Short Fiction by Amanda Lee Koe and Ng Yi Sheng -- Chapter 7 Conclusion. Angelia Poon is Associate Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. This book examines Anglophone Singapore literature in the new millennium as it complicates and disrupts the reductive trajectory of Third World to First that has come to characterize dominant impressions of Singapore as a developed, postcolonial nation. It shows how the state’s determined positioning of Singapore as a global city, which began in earnest in the 1990s, has led to social dilemmas and cultural fissures emerging from the intersection of colonial history, postcolonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism. It explores the ways in which literature constitutes a potent site for the critical examination and cultural negotiation of intersecting identity claims, interests, logics, histories and ideologies as Singapore writers grapple with key aspects of contemporary Singapore society including its official multiracialism, forms of inequality, distribution of privilege, history, coloniality, and gender and sexual politics. Often, the texts challenge hegemonic perspectives by resisting the monolithic and unitary in favor of the heterogeneity of experience, disclosing in a way unique to literature the importance and complexity of affect. The chapters in this book historicize and offer close analyses of some of Singapore’s most culturally significant contemporary writing in relation to salient theoretical and conceptual frames like decoloniality, minority politics, cosmopolitanism, flexible accumulation, and affect theory. 'An important synthesis of the critical approach of a leading scholar of Anglophone Singapore literature.' --Philip Holden, co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English 'This sharp, lively book is essential reading for scholars of contemporary literature and culture. Combining rigorous cultural, political, and socioeconomic research with consideration of several important and compelling literary texts, it conveys the significance and range of contemporary Singaporean Postcolonial literature in English.' --Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University and author of Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace and Global Literature and Gender. Oriental literature. 66468 Literature. 65108 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Literature History and criticism. 66499 Asian Literature. 66469 World Literature. 66655 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Literary Criticism. 66500 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031634543 Printed edition: 9783031634567 Printed edition: 9783031634574 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63455-0 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 63256 63256