Reading and writing / D.J. Enright -- Introduction : discharging the canon / Peter Hyland -- Explorations in the heart of darkness / Margaret Yong -- The empires' orphans / Koh Tai Ann -- Of pines, beards, and several Chinamen / John Kwan-Terry -- Politics and the novel in contemporary Indonesia / D.M.E. Roskies -- The European participant and the Third-World revolution / Chua Cheng Lok -- Drama in Singapore / Max le Blond -- The dispossessing eye / Shirley Lim -- Wordsworth prelude / Shirley Chew -- Cunning beneath the verbs / David Birch.