TY - BOOK AU - Poon,Angelia ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature: Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21st Century SN - 9783031634550 AV - PJ305.2-489 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Oriental literature KW - Literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - History and criticism KW - Asian Literature KW - World Literature KW - Contemporary Literature KW - Literary Criticism N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63455-0 ER -