A much-cited and highly influential text by Alastair Pennycook, one of the world authorities in
sociolinguistics, The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language explores the …

The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other
cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in …

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the
development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume …

In 1873, the King of Persia, Naser-ed-Din Shah Qajar (1831–1896), published a Safarnama,
or travelogue, about his state tour of Europe. 1 During the London leg of his journey, he …

summary National Consciousness and Literary Cosmopolitics: Postcolonial Literature in a
Global Moment by Weihsin Gui argues that postcolonial literature written within a framework …

The concept of diaspora enjoys a significant currency in contemporary cultural theory. Its
descriptive paradigm associates it with the shared experience of displacement, a sense of …

In an attempt to examine the possibility of incorporating of young adult literature into the
classroom reading list, a study on Malaysian young adult students' response to two young …

Although stylistic analysis is the most popular approach in the learning and teaching of an
introductory analysis to novels, a very little pedagogical demonstration has been done in the …

This paper brings questions raised by a recent research project to bear on Malaysian
Literature in English as a discrete object of disciplinary study. The first consideration is …

Achieving a collective sense of belonging in the pluralistic society of Malaysia, whose
political systems and social directives are very much controlled by the dominant Malay …