Dear Colleagues,

We take great pleasure in announcing the publication of the March 2025 issue of Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. The special issue, “Reorienting Singapore Literature,” is guest-edited by Professor Angelia M. C. Poon and Professor Iping Liang. This special issue features three research articles, along with five research articles covering general topics. All articles are available on our website. For more information please visit http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/.

Sincerely,
Joan Chiung-huei Chang
Editor-in-Chief
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Vol. 51 No. 1 (March 2025)
Special Issue “Reorienting Singapore Literature”
Guest Editors: Angelia M. C. Poon and Iping Liang

Introduction
Introduction: Reorienting Singapore Literature / Angelia M. C. Poon and Iping Liang

Articles
Inter-Imperial Encounter: Teo Poh Leng’s “F.M.S.R.” and Singapore in the Longue Durée / Tung-An Wei

From Class Struggle to the Docile Other: The Singaporean Migrant Worker Narrative in Retrospect / Luka Lei Zhang

To Dream, at What Price? Interrogating “Success” in Singapore Dreaming / Wah Guan Lim

Literary and Cultural Criticism
Vietnam Veterans’ Agent Orange-Related Illness and Disability Narratives: The Pursuit of Solidarity, Justice, and Truth / Pei-chen Liao

“A New Mother with Glass Eyes and a Wooden Tail”: Puerperal Insanity in Lucy Clifford’s “The New Mother” / Han-ying Liu

Allegory of Becoming: Ethnicities and Nation in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia / Yu-wen Fu

H. T. Tsiang’s Chinese Dialectics and Revolutionary Romance in The Hanging on Union Square / Junha Jung

Toward a World of Pluriversality: Chang Kuei-hsing and His Rainforest Writings / Myron Chun-Chieh Tsao