Transcending Second Tongue Poetry with First World Poetics : the Examples of Alfian Sa'at and Cyril Wong as Southeast Asian Anglophone Writing

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the Singaporean context, the relationship between language arts and cultural realities can be traced to the place of literature in the country's post-Independence economic and cultural modernity. Much of this has to do with the uses to which English is deployed within the social, political and cultural spheres. Much of the Singaporean literary-critical discourse has been dominated by concerns over literary English, largely because both language and literature are inextricable elements. And this inextricability can be the source of deep and meaningful discussions about literary expressions as a means of genuine, viable and valuable contributions to a cultural economy that is continually being modernised. The Singaporean poets Alfian Sa'at and Cyril Wong are important figures working in a mode of poetry-making that reflects the rapid changes within such a linguistic and literary-cultural climate.

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• Transcending Second Tongue Poetry with First World Poetics : the Examples of Alfian Sa'at and Cyril Wong as Southeast Asian Anglophone Writing
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