- 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 <i>Taglish, or the phantom power of the</i> 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
In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English
In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English
- Chapter:
- (p.356) (p.357) 18 In conversation: Cebuano writers on Philippine literature and English
- Source:
- Philippine English
- Author(s):
Simeon Dumdum
Timothy Mo
Resil Mojares
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
In this concluding chapter, three Cebuano writers — Simeon Dumdum, Timothy Mo, and Dr. Resil Mojares — discuss the Cebuano tradition of English-language creative writing, the legacy of Spanish and American colonialism, and English in the Philippines. Simeon Dumdum went to Ireland as a teenage seminarian before pursuing a legal career and is regarded as one of the best poets the Visayas has ever produced. Timothy Mo is a novelist and a regular visitor to the Philippines. Dr. Resil Mojares has been Director of the Center of Cebuano Studies at the University of San Carlos and has taught and lectured at universities in America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
Keywords: Cebuano writers, Simeon Dumdum, Timothy Mo, Resil Mojares, creative writing, colonialism
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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 <i>Taglish, or the phantom power of the</i> 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
