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Teaching creative writing in Asia / edited by Darryl Whetter.

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Book
Contributor:
Whetter, Darryl, 1971- editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Asia.
English language.
Creative writing (Higher education)--Asia.
Creative writing (Higher education).
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).
Asia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
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Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction A Luxury Any Government Can Afford: English-language Creative Writing Pedagogies in 21st-Century Asia
"Poetry Is a Luxury We Cannot Afford"
Works Cited
Part 1 The Language ...
1 "Speak Good Singlish": An ang moh Directs Singapore's First Creative Writing Master's Degree, Not Quite in Singlish
Singlish Cannot Last Time
"Emotionally Acceptable" Mother Tongues
"This One Chope Already": (More) Linguistic Aspects of Singlish
Aiyoh, this One Confirms Power Steam Lah: Singlish in Contemporary SingLit
"Like Being Alive Twice": Code-Switching and Singlish in SingLit
Singlish and Comedy in SingLit
"You Got Think": Thinking in Singlish (In SingLit)
Notes
2 Compromised Tongues: That "Wrong" Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia
3 Charisma Versus Amnesia
The Rise of Creative Writing in English India
4 The New Creative Writing Classroom of India: The Client-Student, Structures of Privilege, and the Spectre of Privatisation
Introduction
Possibilities and Limitations
The Student as Client: Pedagogical Challenges
Conclusion
5 Reframing the Field: Genre and the Rising 21st-Century Multilingual Writer
6 Self-translation From China: Aspects of Creative Writing in English as a Foreign Language
Introduction
The Teaching and Research of Creative Writing in English in China
Chinese-specific Features in Creative Writing in English
The Healing Aspect of the Workshop
The Contents of Creative Work
The Use of Culturally Loaded Expressions
Creative Writing as Self-Translation
Language Issues and Creativity in English as a Foreign Language
7 Radical Translation: Teaching Poetry Writing in Hong Kong
Homophonic Translation
Self-translation
Radical Translation
Part 2 ... and the Landscape
8 Another English: Filipinos Write Back
(Then) An American Colony
The Anglo-American Influence
From Rizal to Murakami
Creative Writing (CW) in Philippine Universities
CW Workshops and Centres Or Institutes
English and Bilingualism
A Language of Privilege
A Career Portal
9 The Problem of Memoir in the Philippines: A Possible Solution
10 Teaching Creative Writing in Taiwan: Or, Taking the Worry Out of the Word "Creative"
11 The Non-Fiction Selfie
Unfamiliar Settings
A Cast of One
The Sticks: Idyll Or Nightmare?
Contradiction in Terms and Hyperbole
"His Eyebrows Coming Together": Belaboured Mechanics of Dialogue
The Afterlife
Beginnings
Fiction (Or "The Forsaken Pleas of the Damned")
Non-fiction (Or "Blowing It All to Shreds")
Works Cited
Notes:
12 Writing Dance: Mentoring the Writing of Dance Artists Across the Asia-Pacific.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version: Whetter, Darryl Teaching Creative Writing in Asia
ISBN:
9781000425574
1000425576
9781003133018
1003133010
Publisher Number:
40030682240
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