Abstract
In its rapid socio-economic transformation over the four decades or so of its existence as an independent nation and in its quest to position itself as a competitive global nation and service hub, Singapore has come to embody many of the cultural phenomena of Asian modernity in an age of globalization. This has imposed a number of cultural, narrative and ideological influences on its writers. Young “post-65” Anglophone Chinese novelists like Colin Cheong, while occupying a relatively privileged position in a much more affluent Singapore society than that occupied by Singaporean writers of an older generation, position themselves against the paternalistic authority of the establishment, and at the nexus of a variety of global cultural influences. The result is a thematics and narratology of restlessness itself, which might thus be seen as the governing trope of Singapore Anglophone literary production in an age of globalization.