Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature

This book looks at culturally significant, English-language texts produced in Singapore in the last 20 years by writers such as Balli Kaur Jaswal, Alfian Sa’at, Claire Tham, Amanda Lee Koe, Ng Yi-Sheng and Kevin Kwan. It provides an analysis sensitive to the writers'' socio-political and cultural contexts, and shows how Singapore''s Anglophone literature successfully disrupts the government’s narr...