- Title Pages
- Asian Englishes Today
- Dedication
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- [UNTITLED]
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Introduction Philippine English: Linguistic and literary perspectives -
1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature -
2 English in Philippine education: Solution or problem? -
3 English-language media in the Philippines: Description and research -
4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English -
5 ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy -
6 Taglish, or the phantom power of the lingua franca -
7 Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines -
8 A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English -
9 Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary -
10 Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English -
11 English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations: Issues, opportunities and research -
12 Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English -
13 Negotiating language: Postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English -
14 ‘This scene so fair’: Filipino English poetry, 1905–2005 -
15 The Philippine short story in English: An overview -
16 The Filipino novel in English -
17 Filipino diasporic literature -
18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English -
19 Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines - Index
Filipino diasporic literature
Filipino diasporic literature
- Chapter:
- (p.337) 17 Filipino diasporic literature
- Source:
- Philippine English
- Author(s):
Alfred A. Yuson
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter discusses two distinct features of Filipino diasporic literature. One, it is written in a second language, English, with which Filipinos have been more than familiar for over a century. Two, the output may now be said to compete strongly with, if not carry the possibility of eventually overwhelming, the literature being written “back home.” While literature in the Philippines is written in a variety of languages, including the national one of Filipino, which is Tagalog-based, English-language writers still hold sway. This chapter also discusses the fast-growing number of diasporic writers who have been in the forefront of dynamic Asian-American writing.
Keywords: diasporic literature, literature, English-language writers, diasporic writers, Asian-American writing
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- Title Pages
- Asian Englishes Today
- Dedication
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- [UNTITLED]
-
Introduction Philippine English: Linguistic and literary perspectives -
1 A favorable climate and soil: A transplanted language and literature -
2 English in Philippine education: Solution or problem? -
3 English-language media in the Philippines: Description and research -
4 World Englishes or worlds of English? Pitfalls of a postcolonial discourse in Philippine English -
5 ‘When I was a child I spake as a child’: Reflecting on the limits of a nationalist language policy -
6 Taglish, or the phantom power of the lingua franca -
7 Linguistic diversity and English in the Philippines -
8 A lectal description of the phonological features of Philippine English -
9 Lexicography and the description of Philippine English vocabulary -
10 Investigating the grammatical features of Philippine English -
11 English in Philippine call centers and BPO operations: Issues, opportunities and research -
12 Colonial education and the shaping of Philippine literature in English -
13 Negotiating language: Postcolonialism and nationalism in Philippine literature in English -
14 ‘This scene so fair’: Filipino English poetry, 1905–2005 -
15 The Philippine short story in English: An overview -
16 The Filipino novel in English -
17 Filipino diasporic literature -
18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English -
19 Bibliographical resources for researching English in the Philippines - Index
