Hong Kong as a Test Case for World Literature
This article posits Hong Kong as a test case for several theoretical perspectives currently developed in the rising field of world literature. Focusing on three main areas—namely, Hong Kong’s semi-peripheral neocoloniality, its language politics, and the proliferation of the poetry genre—the article...
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doaj-4c3c97a5583f4d9bafe59e2a151a3ff62020-11-24T22:28:58ZengRatnabali PublisherSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry2349-80642017-09-01410923153Hong Kong as a Test Case for World LiteratureMichael Tsang0Newcastle UniversityThis article posits Hong Kong as a test case for several theoretical perspectives currently developed in the rising field of world literature. Focusing on three main areas—namely, Hong Kong’s semi-peripheral neocoloniality, its language politics, and the proliferation of the poetry genre—the article aims to examine how world literature and Hong Kong can strike a dialogue with each other, exploring each other’s limits. For Hong Kong to make meaningful contributions to world literature, it desperately needs to build a name for itself as a literature of its own concerns. Keywords: Hong Kong; Neo-coloniality; Language politics; World Literaturehttp://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/155 |
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This article posits Hong Kong as a test case for several theoretical perspectives currently developed in the rising field of world literature. Focusing on three main areas—namely, Hong Kong’s semi-peripheral neocoloniality, its language politics, and the proliferation of the poetry genre—the article aims to examine how world literature and Hong Kong can strike a dialogue with each other, exploring each other’s limits. For Hong Kong to make meaningful contributions to world literature, it desperately needs to build a name for itself as a literature of its own concerns.
Keywords: Hong Kong; Neo-coloniality; Language politics; World Literature |
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