Teaching Creative Writing in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367621339 / Miękka / 2023 / 212 str.

Opis

This book examines the dynamic landscape of creative educations in Asia, exploring the intersection of post-coloniality, translation, and creative educations in one of the world’s most vibrant landscapes to epitomize STEM versus STEAM educational debates.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Luxury Any Government Can Afford: English-Language Creative Writing Pedagogies in Twenty-First-Century Asia  Part 1. The Language…  1. "Speak Good Singlish": An Ang Moh Directs Singapore’s First Creative Writing Master’s Degree, not Quite in Singlish  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  5. Reframing the Field: Genre and the Rising Twenty-First-Century Multilingual Writer  6. Self-Translation from China: Aspects of Creative Writing in English as a Foreign Language  7. Radical Translation: Teaching Poetry Writing in Hong Kong  Part 2. …and the Landscape  8. Another English: Filipinos Write Back  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  12. Writing Dance: Mentoring the Voices of Dance Artists across the Asia-Pacific  13. Cosmopolitan Creative Writing Pedagogies: First-Person Plural and Writing/Teaching against Offence

 

O autorze

Darryl Whetter is the author of four books of fiction and two poetry collections, including the 2020 climate-crisis novel Our Sands. After working as a writing professor at various universities in his native Canada, he was the inaugural director of the first full Creative Writing master’s program in Singapore.