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Lecture on Literatures in Englishes:
Creation and Criticism, and
Poetry Reading
Presented by Professor Edwin Thumboo
In
the Lecture on 14 November, Professer Edwin Thumboo addressed (1)
the challenges faced by writers belonging to nations where
English, the ex-colonial language, is now a family of world
englishes and (2) the critical approaches that best enable the
studt of such literatures. On 15 November, there was a poetry
reading in which he read several of his poems, including
"Conjunction" and one he recently wrote entitled "Uncle Never
Knew".
The event was organized by
Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, Department of
English and Communication, The Halliday Centre for Intelligent
Application of Language Studies, and Run Run Shaw Library. |
