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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Nov 1, 2010
Jointly organised by The University of Hong Kong and The University of Nottingha
Social Science Research Network, 2015
Session: What is Indigenous?While there is no shortage of touristic or exoticizing fiction set in... more Session: What is Indigenous?While there is no shortage of touristic or exoticizing fiction set in Hong Kong, English-language creative writing that attends to Hong Kong as place – its people, history, culture - remains largely invisible to a global readership. “Invisibility” is the point of departure toward locating anglophone literary writing in Hong Kong from the 20th to the 21st centuries. The paper will also reference other academically established starting points such as literary postcolonialism and world anglophone literature. Following through the logic of these beginnings leads, in turn, to the related issue of the “impossibility” of anglophone Hong Kong literature. This paper is grounded in a consistent point of reference to recent debates in Chinese about how (and how not) to tell the story of Hong Kong as colony and postcolony in order to articulate a framework for the description and explanation of the languages and narratives of anglophone Hong Kong literature. Through discussion of selected texts, this paper is an inquiry into the forms of languaging that enable anglophone Hong Kong literature’s legibility as both local and global
Organizer : Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Maca
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
As a court reporter, Sybille Bedford wrote about a number of famous trials during the 1950s and 1... more As a court reporter, Sybille Bedford wrote about a number of famous trials during the 1950s and 1960s. In her court writings, however, the trial report is the point of departure for analytic and imaginative explorations of law and society. They focus on the social world of law as evidenced in ordinary trials and courtrooms and also move outside to scrutinize and speculate on law in society. Bedford’s court writing has attracted considerable praise from legal reviewers and readers including Richard Posner but has not been studied in any detail by either legal or literary scholars. This chapter questions why this has been so in order to elaborate an idea of the “literary” as a style, rhetoric, and mode of representation that fosters connections between law and the social world at large – or between “Common” (as in Common Law) and the “common”. As part of this elaboration, it will contrast Bedford’s writing with more established genres like the legal memoir or writing by legal professionals that address the lay or general reader.
... the cohabitation between men, ghosts, forest creatures and ancestral spirits that was part ... more ... the cohabitation between men, ghosts, forest creatures and ancestral spirits that was part of the ordinary Yoruba world(Jones 1998: 6). In different ways, Booth and Lam seek to convey the ordinariness of everyday Hong Kong in which childhood takes place; the child's ...
The HKU Scholars Hub is the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong. It seeks to ... more The HKU Scholars Hub is the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong. It seeks to collect the intellectual output of HKU and make it available to the widest possible audience. Records are made in the Hub for items that are fulltext open access, or for URLs that hyperlink ...
World Literature Today, 2001
Wasafiri, 1995
... Mantumbusa. Mwewa Kunda had no decisions to make, no choice but to wait. He ... even. Only th... more ... Mantumbusa. Mwewa Kunda had no decisions to make, no choice but to wait. He ... even. Only the whistling stridulations of cicadas cut through the sullen stark silence as Mwewa looked up at the blood-red rising sun. Through ...
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2011
... 2007); and Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong, Signs: Journal of Women in ... and ma... more ... 2007); and Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong, Signs: Journal of Women in ... and many articles on anglophone world literatures and Hong Kong film, literature, and ... Her book Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures (2003) was published by ...
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Nov 1, 2010
Jointly organised by The University of Hong Kong and The University of Nottingha
Social Science Research Network, 2015
Session: What is Indigenous?While there is no shortage of touristic or exoticizing fiction set in... more Session: What is Indigenous?While there is no shortage of touristic or exoticizing fiction set in Hong Kong, English-language creative writing that attends to Hong Kong as place – its people, history, culture - remains largely invisible to a global readership. “Invisibility” is the point of departure toward locating anglophone literary writing in Hong Kong from the 20th to the 21st centuries. The paper will also reference other academically established starting points such as literary postcolonialism and world anglophone literature. Following through the logic of these beginnings leads, in turn, to the related issue of the “impossibility” of anglophone Hong Kong literature. This paper is grounded in a consistent point of reference to recent debates in Chinese about how (and how not) to tell the story of Hong Kong as colony and postcolony in order to articulate a framework for the description and explanation of the languages and narratives of anglophone Hong Kong literature. Through discussion of selected texts, this paper is an inquiry into the forms of languaging that enable anglophone Hong Kong literature’s legibility as both local and global
Organizer : Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Maca
The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
As a court reporter, Sybille Bedford wrote about a number of famous trials during the 1950s and 1... more As a court reporter, Sybille Bedford wrote about a number of famous trials during the 1950s and 1960s. In her court writings, however, the trial report is the point of departure for analytic and imaginative explorations of law and society. They focus on the social world of law as evidenced in ordinary trials and courtrooms and also move outside to scrutinize and speculate on law in society. Bedford’s court writing has attracted considerable praise from legal reviewers and readers including Richard Posner but has not been studied in any detail by either legal or literary scholars. This chapter questions why this has been so in order to elaborate an idea of the “literary” as a style, rhetoric, and mode of representation that fosters connections between law and the social world at large – or between “Common” (as in Common Law) and the “common”. As part of this elaboration, it will contrast Bedford’s writing with more established genres like the legal memoir or writing by legal professionals that address the lay or general reader.
... the cohabitation between men, ghosts, forest creatures and ancestral spirits that was part ... more ... the cohabitation between men, ghosts, forest creatures and ancestral spirits that was part of the ordinary Yoruba world(Jones 1998: 6). In different ways, Booth and Lam seek to convey the ordinariness of everyday Hong Kong in which childhood takes place; the child's ...
The HKU Scholars Hub is the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong. It seeks to ... more The HKU Scholars Hub is the institutional repository of The University of Hong Kong. It seeks to collect the intellectual output of HKU and make it available to the widest possible audience. Records are made in the Hub for items that are fulltext open access, or for URLs that hyperlink ...
World Literature Today, 2001
Wasafiri, 1995
... Mantumbusa. Mwewa Kunda had no decisions to make, no choice but to wait. He ... even. Only th... more ... Mantumbusa. Mwewa Kunda had no decisions to make, no choice but to wait. He ... even. Only the whistling stridulations of cicadas cut through the sullen stark silence as Mwewa looked up at the blood-red rising sun. Through ...
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2011
... 2007); and Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong, Signs: Journal of Women in ... and ma... more ... 2007); and Double Trouble: Doing Gender in Hong Kong, Signs: Journal of Women in ... and many articles on anglophone world literatures and Hong Kong film, literature, and ... Her book Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures (2003) was published by ...