Exploring Second Language Creative Writing

Beyond Babel

Editor

Dan Disney | Sogang University

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Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s notion of “bilingual creativity” as an enculturated, shaped discourse (a mutation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Creative Writing (SL), a new subfield to emerge from Stylistics, extends David Hanauer’s Poetry as Research (2010); situating a suite of methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies, researchers in this book mobilize theories from Creativity Studies, TESOL, TETL, Translation Studies, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, and Literary Studies. Changing the relationship between L2 writers and canonized literary artefacts (from auratic to dialogic), each essay in this text is essentially Freirean; each chapter explores dynamic processes through which creative writing in a non-native language engages material and phenomenological modes toward linguistic pluricentricity and, indeed, emancipation.

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.19

Table of Contents

Introduction: Beyond Babel? Exploring second language creative writing

Dan Disney | pp. 1–10

Chapter 1. Appreciating the beauty of second language poetry writing

David I. Hanauer | pp. 11–22

Chapter 2. Learner and writer voices: Learners as writers and the search for authorial voice

Jane Spiro | pp. 23–40

Chapter 3. “Is this how it’s supposed to work?”: Poetry as a radical technology in L2 creative writing classrooms

Dan Disney | pp. 41–56

Chapter 4. Literary translation as a creative practice in L2 writing pedagogies

Eugenia Loffredo and Manuela Perteghella | pp. 57–74

Chapter 5. Process and product, means and ends: Creative Writing in Macao

Christopher Kelen | pp. 75–102

Chapter 6. Curriculum as cultural critique: Creative Writing pedagogy in Hong Kong

Eddie Tay | pp. 103–118

Chapter 7. Co-constructing a community of creative writers: Exploring L2 identity formations through Bruneian playwriting

Grace V.S. Chin | pp. 119–138

References | pp. 139–148

Notes on contributors | pp. 149–152

Name index | pp. 153–154

Subject index | pp. 155–158

“This volume can be seen as a greatly valuable resource to possess, not only for L2 writing educators, but also for those who are interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, critical pedagogy, or ethnography. Reading this book will lead them to better comprehend the value of L2 writing as the realization of authentic writer voice that reflects the writer’s unique experiences in a specific context.”

Hyung-Jo Yoon, Michigan State University, on Linguist List 26.2475, 2015

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Rosenfeld, Melodie

2024. Continuing language teacher education: L2 experienced teachers engage in the craft of creative writing. Journal of Language Teaching 4:2 ► pp. 12 ff.

Fang, Xia

2023. English-language creative writing in a Chinese context: translation as a supplement. New Writing 20:4 ► pp. 420 ff.

Wang, Hung‐Chun, Yuh‐Show Cheng, Po‐Hsi Chen & Shao‐Zu Su

2019. Cultural Effects on English Language Teachers’ Judgments of Metaphoric Creativity: A Mixed‐Methods Approach. The Journal of Creative Behavior 53:1 ► pp. 69 ff.

Fialho, Olivia, Sonia Zyngier & Michael Burke

2016. Chapter 1. Empirical approaches to the study of literature in learning environments. In Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24], ► pp. 1 ff.

Teranishi, Masayuki & Masako Nasu

2016. Chapter 9. Literature and the role of background knowledge for EFL learners. In Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24], ► pp. 169 ff.

Zyngier, Sonia & Vander Viana

2016. Chapter 14. Literary awareness in a high-school EFL learning environment. In Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments [Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24], ► pp. 271 ff.

Hanauer, David I.

2015. Measuring Voice in Poetry Written by Second Language Learners. Written Communication 32:1 ► pp. 66 ff.

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