Writing Malysia & Singapore: Shared Pasts Global Futures

In the last decade an emerging generation of writers from Malaysia and Singapore has achieved international recognition, pioneering new global English fiction and embarking on more confident imaginative journeys across Southeast Asia. This one-day symposium, a collaboration between the Open University and the University of Exeter, seeks to remap global English fiction (dominated by neighbouring South Asia) and draw fresh attention to the dynamic colonial literary cultures and postcolonial, globalising futures of Malaysian and Singaporean Anglophone writing.

Keynote Speakers: Philip Holden, National University of Singapore; Mui Cheng Angelia Poon, National Institute of Education, Singapore.