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Becoming Poets: The Asian English experience
Author:
Agnes Lam
ISBN:
9783034314862
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2014
Pages:
337
Size:
15 x 23 cm
Weight:
405 grams
Price:
INR
2300.00
About the Book
Literatures in English have emerged in several Asian communities and have enjoyed a growing readership. Creative writing programmes in Asia and other parts of the world have also attracted many new voices from Asia. However, little is known about how learners from different language backgrounds become published poets in English. This book is a pioneering work on the development of poets and poetry in English in Asia. It offers a five-stage model to understand such phenomena. The life experiences of 50 published poets from five Asian locations: Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and India, based on interviews conducted by the author, and their poetry are analyzed to appreciate how learners of English in multilingual environments become published poets and how such individual metamorphosis contributes to the growth of literary communities at local, regional and cosmopolitan levels. Researchers on Asian Englishes and literatures in English, teachers and participants in creative writing programmes, policy makers for English in education or the nurturing of the creative arts and any one interested in poetry writing will find the book highly informative and inspiring.
About the Author
Agnes Lam
Agnes S. L. LAM recently retired as Professor from the University of Hong Kong. Noted for her landmark volume, Language education in China (2005), she is also well known as a poet. In 2008, she was made Honorary Fellow in Writing by the University of Iowa and received the Nosside International Poetry Prize. Her latest poetry collection is A pond in the sky: Selected and new poems (2013).
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