Overview
- Examines the history of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Offers new perspectives on the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies.
- Argues that the historical formation of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relevant to the discipline and beyond to the humanities as a whole
Part of the book series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English (APLE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Anglophone literature and literary studies in Asia
- textual critique of English literature in colonial context
- establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia
- Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies in Asia
- historical formation and shape of English studies in Asia
- Anglo-American literature in Asian universities
- Literary canon in Asia
About this book
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply “happen”: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that thehistorical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Myles Chilton is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Nihon University, Japan. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago, and is the author of English Studies Beyond the ‘Center’: Teaching Literature and the Future of Global English (2016).
Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Yukari Yoshihara is an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She is an author and editor of English Studies in Asia (2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asian English
Book Subtitle: Histories, Texts, Institutions
Editors: Myles Chilton, Steve Clark, Yukari Yoshihara
Series Title: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3513-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3512-0Published: 25 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3515-1Published: 26 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3513-7Published: 24 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7638
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 325
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literature, general, Asian History, Literary History, Language Education, Language History