The Englishized Subject

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Englishization and the New Asian Subjectivity

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   Pages 1-13

3. Post-Imperial/Postcolonial English(es)

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   Pages 15-27

4. Transnational Shakespeare

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   Pages 29-40

5. Englishization of Education and (Post/)Colonial Identity in Hong Kong

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   Pages 41-53

6. Localism in English Language Teaching in Hong Kong

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   Pages 55-64

7. Identity of the In-Between in Contemporary Hong Kong Literary Writings

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   Pages 65-75

8. The Self Between Race and Language: Two Hong Kong Bilingual/Bicultural Plays

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   Pages 77-89

9. Bilingual Metaphor and Hybrid Identity in Hong Kong and Singapore Writings

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   Pages 91-100

10. Hybridity in Identity: New Englishes in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia

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    Pages 101-108

11. In Between Cultures and Nation: Writing the Self in Singapore

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    Pages 109-119

12. The Self as Hybrid Contestation: Three Autobiographical Stories from Singapore and Malaysia

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    Pages 121-132

13. Conclusion: Globalization as Englishization

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    Pages 133-147

14. Back Matter

    Pages 149-154

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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.

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

• The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

  Kwok-kan Tam

Head of the International Ibsen Committee (University of Oslo) and Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities, Kwok-kan Tam is Chair Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. He has served as Chair Professor and Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong and as Professor, Department Chairman and Head of Graduate Division at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been awarded Visiting Professorships and Fellowships at Stockholm University, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sophia University, National University of Singapore and the East-West Center, Honolulu. His areas of expertise include Ibsen studies, Gao Xingjian studies, world Englishes, postcolonial studies in literature, identity and gender studies, comparative literature, and drama. He has received numerous fellowships and grants for his research on Chinese Ibsenism.

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