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World Englishes, Global Classrooms

The Future of English Literary and Linguistic Studies

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Editors:
  1. Kirsten Hemmy

    1. Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, USA

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  2. Chandrika Balasubramanian

    1. Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Oman

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  • Addresses English studies' literary, language, and cultural implications

  • Brings together a group of leading scholars on the much-debated issue of the relevance of English language

  • Offers diverse conversation on pressing issues in literary and language studies from a decidedly global perspective

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. On Language and Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. World Englishes in the EFL Classroom: The Reality

      • Chandrika Balasubramanian
      Pages 3-15

    3. A Global Conversation on Native-Speakerism: Toward Promoting Diversity in English Language Teaching

      • Sarah Hopkyns
      Pages 17-33

    4. World Englishes, EMI, and State-of-The-Art International English

      • Christopher G. Haswell, Jonathan Shachter
      Pages 35-48

    5. Decolonizing the Composition Classroom Through Inclusion of Localized Global English Varieties

      • Tim Hendrix
      Pages 49-66

    6. Lexical Bundles of Stance in Upper-Level Argumentative Literary Essays and Expert-Level Literary Criticism Articles: A Comparative Dispersion Study

      • William Michael Lake, I-Hsien Lee
      Pages 67-83

    7. Translation Beyond the Margins

      • Hanan Bennoudi
      Pages 85-94

    8. Student Translators Between Pedagogical Grammars and Language at Work: The Case of Aspect in English and Standard Arabic

      • Kahlaoui Mohamed-Habib
      Pages 95-114

    9. Incorporating Intercultural Competence into EFL Classrooms: The Case of Japanese Higher Education Institutions

      • Ana Sofia Hofmeyr
      Pages 115-130

    10. Creative Cultural History as a Medium for Social and Emotional Learning: Teaching Students to Present the Stories of Their Community Across Cultural Boundaries

      • Christa Knellwolf King
      Pages 131-148

    11. Universalist Pedagogy and the Future of Literary Studies

      • Myles Chilton
      Pages 149-164

  3. On Language and Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. When They See Us: Using Texts of Affirmation in the Global Literature Classroom

      • Kirsten Hemmy
      Pages 167-182

    3. Orality in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Walter Scott’s Waverley

      • Anna Fancett
      Pages 183-193

    4. Rejecting the (Step)Mother Tongue: Jhumpa Lahiri’s Translingual Identity

      • Mary Wardle
      Pages 195-206

    5. Border Skirmishes: Questioning Blurring Boundaries Between Fiction and Nonfiction

      • Mary L. Tabakow, Staci Strobl
      Pages 207-219

    6. The Cultural Imaginary in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West: A Transnational Reading

      • Inas Younis
      Pages 221-234

    7. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as Mediated by Kamil Kilānī: A Bourdieusian Account of the Translator’s Habitus

      • Khulud M. Al-Mehmadi
      Pages 235-255

    8. Identity Politics and Education in Select Native Canadian Autobiographies

      • Kodhandaraman Chinnathambi
      Pages 257-273
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About this book

This book provides a critical overview of contemporary world issues in Language and Literary Studies. It offers specific ideas as to how to move away from the traditional literary canon, on the one hand, and traditional native-speaker norms in English language teaching, on the other. It delivers a global perspective of both the growth and the challenges in ELT studies around the world. Following the introduction, the first section of the book contains chapters from international scholars on recognizing and diversifying Englishes in today’s language and translation classrooms. Specifically, the chapters focus on issues such as the cultural hegemony of a monolithic English, English and university pedagogy, English as a gatekeeper, and the role of a reconceived English education in promoting cross-cultural understanding. The second section focuses on the interaction of literature and culture, with specific chapters focusing on decolonizing the traditional literary canon, defining a global text, representing cultural interactions in literary texts, and emerging genres in contemporary English literature. Both sections of the book question the existing boundaries in a post-2020 world, specifically in a non-western world. It is an indispensable resource for scholars in cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, USA

    Kirsten Hemmy

  • Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Oman

    Chandrika Balasubramanian

About the editors

Kirsten Hemmy’s book of poetry, The Atrocity of Water, was a Tom Lombardo selection for Press 53 (2010). Hemmy is currently completing a book on Muslim women in history (2022). Her poetry has recently appeared in Sonora Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Southern Humanities Review, Glass Poetry, and elsewhere. Hemmy, a recipient of the Linda Flowers Literary Award for Poetry, is a two-time Fulbright scholar (2003 and 2012) who currently lives in the Sultanate of Oman, where she teaches world literature and creative writing at Sultan Qaboos University.  

Chandrika Balasubramanian’s book Register Variation in Indian English (2009) was one of the first large-scale empirical, corpus-based investigations of variation within an international English. While she predominantly has published on World Englishes, and specifically on Indian English, she has also published on various areas of language pedagogy, and her recent work focuses on the pedagogical implications of World Englishes scholarship. Balasubramanian currently lives and works at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat, Oman, where she teaches sociolinguistics and language.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: World Englishes, Global Classrooms

  • Book Subtitle: The Future of English Literary and Linguistic Studies

  • Editors: Kirsten Hemmy, Chandrika Balasubramanian

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4033-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4032-3Published: 15 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4035-4Published: 16 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4033-0Published: 14 December 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 186 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Sociolinguistics

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