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.

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• Introduction Angus Whitehead and Angelia Poon1. Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui2. "We who have no country but our century": Wong May, Singapore-stateless Poet Angus Whitehead3. The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip Holden4. Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew5. Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, FirstFruits, and Singapore Literature E.K. Tan6. The Politics and Poetics of Location in Contemporary Diasporic Singapore Fiction Cheryl Narumi Naruse7. ‘A Kind of Pursuit’: On Boey Kim Cheng’s poetry Shirley Chew8. A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay9. A City without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark10. "Burning In Your Hands": Queer Literature in Singapore Ng Yi-Sheng11. In Praise of Failed Men: the Singapore Novel and the Politics of Masculinity Angelia Poon12. Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts Joanne Leow

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.

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• Introduction Angus Whitehead and Angelia Poon1. Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui2. "We who have no country but our century": Wong May, Singapore-stateless Poet Angus Whitehead3. The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip Holden4. Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew5. Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, FirstFruits, and Singapore Literature E.K. Tan6. The Politics and Poetics of Location in Contemporary Diasporic Singapore Fiction Cheryl Narumi Naruse7. ‘A Kind of Pursuit’: On Boey Kim Cheng’s poetry Shirley Chew8. A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay9. A City without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark10. "Burning In Your Hands": Queer Literature in Singapore Ng Yi-Sheng11. In Praise of Failed Men: the Singapore Novel and the Politics of Masculinity Angelia Poon12. Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts Joanne Leow

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.

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• Introduction Angus Whitehead and Angelia Poon1. Singaporean Literature and Global Modernism: Wang Gungwu, Lloyd Fernando, Lydia Kwa Weihsin Gui2. "We who have no country but our century": Wong May, Singapore-stateless Poet Angus Whitehead3. The Social Life of Genres: Short Stories as a Singapore Form Philip Holden4. Super-Diversity and its Implications in Two Singapore Texts Sim Wai Chew5. Of Language and Beyond: Enoch Ng Kwang Cheng, FirstFruits, and Singapore Literature E.K. Tan6. The Politics and Poetics of Location in Contemporary Diasporic Singapore Fiction Cheryl Narumi Naruse7. ‘A Kind of Pursuit’: On Boey Kim Cheng’s poetry Shirley Chew8. A Luxury We Cannot Afford and the Poetry of Yong Shu Hoong, Toh Hsien Min, and Boey Kim Cheng Eddie Tay9. A City without a Nation: Personal and Collective Memory in the Fiction of Gopal Baratham Steve Clark10. "Burning In Your Hands": Queer Literature in Singapore Ng Yi-Sheng11. In Praise of Failed Men: the Singapore Novel and the Politics of Masculinity Angelia Poon12. Strangers, Surrogates, Lovers: Foreign Domestic Workers in Contemporary Singapore Texts Joanne Leow