Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature: Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21st Century

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction: Positioning Singapore as a Global City
	Constructing the Global City: A Brief History of Economic, Urban, Cultural, and Educational Changes
	Of Ideological and Social Dilemmas, Tensions, and Faultlines
	Anglophone Singapore Literature in the Global City Cultural Formation
	Notes
	References
2 Housing and the City: Constructing Locality and Minority Subjectivities in Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance and Sugarbread
	Public Housing in Singapore: Its Socio-Political Significance and Symbolic Resonance
	The Singapore Literary Landscape of Public Housing: 1997–2013
	Accommodating Minority Subjects: Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Inheritance and Sugarbread
		Inheritance: Minorities in Their Place
		Sugarbread: Growing Pains in Minority Childhood
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 Unfinished Business: Attempting Decoloniality and Upending Race and Knowledge in Malay Sketches and Merdeka/FileRef=\"542008_1_En_3_Figa_HTML.png\" Format=\"PNG\" Color=\"BlackWhite\" Type=\"Linedraw\" Rendition=\"HTML\" Resolution=\"300\" Width=\"67\" Height=\"40\"/FileRef=\"542008_1_En_3_Figb_HTML.gif\" Format=\"GIF\" Color=\"BlackWhite\" Type=\"Linedraw\" Rendition=\"HTML\" Resolution=\"120\" Width=\"72\" Height=\"14\"
	A Decolonial Orientation for Singapore?
	Malay Sketches and Racial Ontology
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	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4 Narrative Form and the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Claire Tham’s The Inlet and Akshita Nanda’s Nimita’s Place
	Cosmopolitanization by the Singapore State
	Shaping the Cosmopolitan Imaginary: Literature and Narrative Form
	The Inlet and the Noir Detective Novel
	Nimita’s Place: The Partition Novel and the Multi-generational Family Saga
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5 Commodifying Singaporean Cosmopolitanism for the World: Crazy Rich Asians and Soy Sauce for Beginners
	“Writing Out”: Evolving Conditions of Literary Production for Anglophone Singapore Literature
	Cosmopolitanism as Spectacle: Crazy Rich Asians
	Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Soy Sauce for Beginners
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 Tapping into Weird: Contemporary Singapore Short Fiction by Amanda Lee Koe and Ng Yi-Sheng
	In Search of Weirdness: Affect Theory and Literature
	Ministry of Moral Panic: The Irreducibility of Weirdness
	Lion City: Weird Extrapolations
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
7 Epilogue
	Notes
	References
Index