The Englishized Subject

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This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers’/people’s subjectivity. Taking a cultural-literary approach to the study of Englishized subjectivity, the book offers a unique study of hybridized literary/language forms by relating them to bilingual thinking and bicultural sensibility. Poets, novelists and playwrights have different strategies to cope with new images and new forms of expression that can capture their sense of hybridized identity, and as a result, hybridity becomes creativity.
This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers’/people’s subjectivity. Taking a cultural-literary approach to the study of Englishized subjectivity, the book offers a unique study of hybridized literary/language forms by relating them to bilingual thinking and bicultural sensibility. Poets, novelists and playwrights have different strategies to cope with new images and new forms of expression that can capture their sense of hybridized identity, and as a result, hybridity becomes creativity.
Presents a pioneering study of Englishized subjectivity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysian writings Provides a new perspective on the rise of Southeast Asian Englishes Offers an in-depth exploration of cultural hybridity in Southeast Asian Englishes Includes cases of bilingual creativity and new uses of English in Southeast Asian writings Examines English in new ownerships of Southeast Asia

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Kwok-kan Tam

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Postcolonial Studies Asian Englishes Critical Discourse Analysis Hong Kong English Literature Singapore English Literature Malaysian English Literature English Language Education Englishization New Asian Subjectivity

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