Chapter One argues that postcolonial writers in these global cities variably negotiate accommodations between cultural and socio-economic agency, based on different kinds of engagement with globalisation. This comparison identifies certain intertwined effects of globalisation and postcoloniality that are explored in the postcolonial writing of First-World global cities, and suggests distinctive postcolonial modalities in Western and non-Western global cities against an ostensibly homogeneous context of global capital. I address the global city as an analytical category distinct from transnational class conflict, deterritorialised capitalism or North/South relations. It offers alternative perspectives on the postcoloniality/globalisation relationship, given that both London and Singapore are advanced global cities. This thesis considers how comparing literary representations of postcolonial London and Singapore in the post-1989 era significantly shifts or changes these positions. More circumspect theorists, however, argue that centre-periphery models of postcoloniality endure alongside deterritorialised power structures, involving North-South cultural and economic power relations still dominated by the West. Firstly, it is asserted that globalisation has superseded postcoloniality conflicts between the West and non-West have been replaced by transnational class conflicts and deterritorialised capitalist regimes. Two major positions have emerged from this. The most significant recent development within postcolonial studies has been its encounter with globalisation theory.
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