Teaching creative writing in Asia

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.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction A Luxury Any Government Can Afford: English-language Creative Writing Pedagogies in 21st-Century Asia -- "Poetry Is a Luxury We Cannot Afford" -- Works Cited -- Part 1 The Language ... -- 1 "Speak Good Singlish": An ang moh Directs Singapore's First Creative Writing Master's Degree, Not Quite in Singlish -- Singlish Cannot Last Time -- "Emotionally Acceptable" Mother Tongues -- "This One Chope Already": (More) Linguistic Aspects of Singlish

Aiyoh, this One Confirms Power Steam Lah: Singlish in Contemporary SingLit -- "Like Being Alive Twice": Code-Switching and Singlish in SingLit -- Singlish and Comedy in SingLit -- "You Got Think": Thinking in Singlish (In SingLit) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 Compromised Tongues: That "Wrong" Language for the Creative Writing We Teach in Asia -- Works Cited -- 3 Charisma Versus Amnesia -- The Rise of Creative Writing in English India -- Works Cited -- 4 The New Creative Writing Classroom of India: The Client-Student, Structures of Privilege, and the Spectre of Privatisation -- Introduction

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