Contents -- Matthew Hart and Jim Hansen- Introduction: Contemporary Literature and the State -- Andrew Van Der Vlies- An Interviw with Jeremy Cronin -- Rita Barnard- Tsotsis: On Law, the Outlaw, and the Postcolonial State -- Matthew Hart- The Third English Civil War: David Peace's "Occult History" of Thatcherism -- John Marx- Failed-State Fiction -- Eric Keenaghan-Life, War, and Love: The Queer Anarchism of Robert Duncan's Poetic Action during the Vietnam War -- Jim Hansen- Samuel Beckett's "Catastrophe" and the Theater of Pure Means -- Jini Kim Watson- The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore's Developmental Landscape -- Ian Baucom-Afterword: States of Time -- Contributors.