Asian English : histories, texts, institutions / Myles Chilton, Steve Clark, Yukari Yoshihara, editors.
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, a...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Asia-Pacific and literature in English.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| Summary: | Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply happen there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that the historical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 325 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9811635129 9789811635120 9811635137 9789811635137 |