Power and Narrative
Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya
Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.
Lisa Lau
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Lau plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Narrative Studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2007 Introduction: Power and narrative Power and Narrative, Lau, Lisa and Shari Daya (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article
2007 The language of power and the power of language: The usage of English by South Asian writers, and the subsequent creation of South Asian image and identity Power and Narrative, Lau, Lisa and Shari Daya (eds.), pp. 27–47 | Article
This article will discuss the complexity of positionality and the implications of writing in the English language in a South Asian context. Given the postcolonial heritage of South Asia, contemporary authors producing literature in English find themselves confronted with both tremendous opportunity… read more