Exploring second language creative writing : beyond Babel /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Linguistic approaches to literature, 1569-3112 ; v. 19 Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 19.
Subject:	Creative writing -- Study and teaching. Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching. Language and languages -- Study and teaching. Creative writing -- Study and teaching. Language and languages -- Study and teaching. Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11231629

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Other authors / contributors:	Disney, Dan (Professor)
ISBN:	9789027270351 902727035X 9789027234087 9027234086
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	In this chapter, Grace V.S. Chin explores how recent studies of creative writing have moved away from prevailing ideas of individual creative acts to explore the social dimensions of creativity. Using a sociocultural approach, Chin examines the interrelated notions of identity, language, and place by investigating L2 creative writing, specifically playwriting, as a social, learning process within the postcolonial, bilingual, and sociocultural contexts of Brunei Darussalam. The theories of Vygotsky and Foucault are expanded on to show how Creative Writing (SL) classes are interactional spaces w.
Other form:	Print version: Exploring second language creative writing 9789027234087

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1. Appreciating the beauty of second language poetry writing
3. Chapter 2. Learner and writer voices
4. Chapter 3. "Is this how it's supposed to work?"
5. Chapter 4. Literary translation as a creative practice in L2 writing pedagogies
6. Chapter 5. Process and product, means and ends
7. Chapter 6. Curriculum as cultural critique
8. Chapter 7. Co-constructing a community of creative writers
9. References
10. Notes on contributors
11. Name index
12. Subject index

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