Detail HOUGHTS ON A SOUTHEAST ASIAN APPROACH TO STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE/LITERATURE IN ENGLISH   Oleh:  Day, Tony Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013 Fulltext: Plenary 3 Thoughts.pdf (229.38KB) Isi artikel o paraphrase a recent opening sentence in an essay on “Postcolonial studies and world literature” by James Graham, Michael Niblett, and Sharae Deckard (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 48, no. 5, December 2012, 465), there is a spectre haunting the study of English literature in Southeast Asia: the spectre of “Southeast Asia” as a distinctive region of the world where English is not only the lingua franca of both regional and cosmopolitan communication but also increasingly the literary language of Southeast Asian authors writing for audiences around the world. In my paper I want to develop some ideas about studying “English literature,” wherever it has been produced, through the perspectives of Southeast Asian authors who have been using English as their literary medium since the late 19 th century. The exercise involves displacing canonic definitions of what constitutes “English literature” as defined in the West and replacing them with various configurations of texts in English written in Southeast Asia. Reading these texts is both a way of developing “Southeast Asian” perspectives on “canonic” English-language authors like Shakespeare or Wallace Stevens and an important means of fostering a greater sense of “Southeast Asian” identity among universit y students in different parts of the ASEAN region. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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