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Bilingual creativity: University–level poetry writing workshops in English in China

How is ‘contact literature’ created?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2015

Gang Sui
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The university-level poetry writing workshops in English taught in a Chinese context are characterized chiefly by bilingual creativity. Based on the practical task of creating ‘contact literature’ (Kachru, 1992: 317), to be more exact, ‘contact poetry’, they transcend the limits of any one single language and culture so as to make points of contact between Chinese and English languages and cultures in terms of verbal images, sound devices, and thematic concerns.

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English Today , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 40 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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