
Teaching Creative Writing in Asia
Darryl Whetter(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-367-62133-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 relevant testing grounds for STEM versus STEAM educational debates.
Several essays attend to one of today's most pressing issues in Creative Writing education, and education generally: the convergence of the former educational revolution of Creative Writing in the anglophone world with a defining aspect of the 21st-century-the shift from monolingual to multilingual writers and learners. The essays look at examples from across Asia with specific experience from India, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Each of the 14 writer-professor contributors has taught Creative Writing substantially in Asia, often creating and directing the first university Creative Writing programs there. This book will be of interest to anyone following global trends within creative writing and those with an interest in education and multilingualism in Asia.
Several essays attend to one of today's most pressing issues in Creative Writing education, and education generally: the convergence of the former educational revolution of Creative Writing in the anglophone world with a defining aspect of the 21st-century-the shift from monolingual to multilingual writers and learners. The essays look at examples from across Asia with specific experience from India, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan.
Each of the 14 writer-professor contributors has taught Creative Writing substantially in Asia, often creating and directing the first university Creative Writing programs there. This book will be of interest to anyone following global trends within creative writing and those with an interest in education and multilingualism in Asia.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-62133-9 (9780367621339)
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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.
Content
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