Edwin Thumboo
Biographic Data
| ID | 101374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Thumboo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Thumboo |
| SIGNATURE | THUMBOO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Braj K
Poetry
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnthony KellmanAnthony Kellman was born in Barbados. He is the author of three books of poetry and two novels, and teaches Creative Writing at Augusta State University, Georgia. His book‐length epic poem of Barbados, Limetone, is scheduled for publication in 2007.Edwin ThumbooEdwin Thumboo has published five collections of poems: Rib of Earth (1956), Gods Can Die (1977), Ulysses by the Merlion (1979), A …
Reflections on World Englishes
Closed and open attitudes to globalised English: Notes on issues
World Englishes
Conversion of the tribes: Societal antecedents and the growth of Singaporean poetry
When discussing the writer's self, it is vitally important that we pay attention to questions of history and politics. This paper seeks to examine the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and the present. The centrality of the colonial experience and the recovery from the experience in terms of the political, economic, intellectual and psychological dimensions are …
Language as power: Gabriel Okara's The Voice as a paradigm
This paper briefly discussses the nature and mode of expression of power as a prelude to stressing the importance of contexts when considering language-with English as the primary focus-as power. That the sense of power varies from culture to culture has implications for the study of how English is used in the non-Anglo-Saxon nations, particularly in connection with the status of English and the new literatures in English that have emerged. Repre…
Language as power
Twin perspectives and multi-ecosystems: Tradition for a Commonwealth Writer
The use of English by writers in non-Anglo-Saxon areas such as India, Africa, and the West Indies is expanding and has led to an astounding growth of new literatures in English. This paper discusses the issue of multiple literary traditions, each of which is marked by particular linguistic, literary, and aesthetic preoccupations that constitute what can be conveniently called a literary ecology. In a crucial sense, the writer of the new literatur…
Shahnon Ahmad's No Harvest but a Thorn
No Harvest but a Thorn opens with a sentence whose emphatic brevity outlines the macrocosm governing the interlocking spiritual, emotional, and physical environment inhabited by Lahuma and his family. That Life and death, dearth and plenty, are in the hands of God. In the hands of Allah the Almighty. (p. 1) is simultaneously religious doctrine and empirical attitude, declaration of faith and supplication. Moreover, the quartet of primeval forces,…
Uhuru's Fire
Language as power: Gabriel Okara's The Voice as a paradigm
This paper briefly discussses the nature and mode of expression of power as a prelude to stressing the importance of contexts when considering language-with English as the primary focus-as power. That the sense of power varies from culture to culture has implications for the study of how English is used in the non-Anglo-Saxon nations, particularly in connection with the status of English and the new literatures in English that have emerged. Repre…
Twin perspectives and multi-ecosystems: Tradition for a Commonwealth Writer
The use of English by writers in non-Anglo-Saxon areas such as India, Africa, and the West Indies is expanding and has led to an astounding growth of new literatures in English. This paper discusses the issue of multiple literary traditions, each of which is marked by particular linguistic, literary, and aesthetic preoccupations that constitute what can be conveniently called a literary ecology. In a crucial sense, the writer of the new literatur…
Reflections on World Englishes
Conversion of the tribes: Societal antecedents and the growth of Singaporean poetry
When discussing the writer's self, it is vitally important that we pay attention to questions of history and politics. This paper seeks to examine the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and the present. The centrality of the colonial experience and the recovery from the experience in terms of the political, economic, intellectual and psychological dimensions are …
Uhuru's Fire
Shahnon Ahmad's No Harvest but a Thorn
No Harvest but a Thorn opens with a sentence whose emphatic brevity outlines the macrocosm governing the interlocking spiritual, emotional, and physical environment inhabited by Lahuma and his family. That Life and death, dearth and plenty, are in the hands of God. In the hands of Allah the Almighty. (p. 1) is simultaneously religious doctrine and empirical attitude, declaration of faith and supplication. Moreover, the quartet of primeval forces,…
Twin perspectives and multi-ecosystems: Tradition for a Commonwealth Writer
The use of English by writers in non-Anglo-Saxon areas such as India, Africa, and the West Indies is expanding and has led to an astounding growth of new literatures in English. This paper discusses the issue of multiple literary traditions, each of which is marked by particular linguistic, literary, and aesthetic preoccupations that constitute what can be conveniently called a literary ecology. In a crucial sense, the writer of the new literatur…
Language as power: Gabriel Okara's The Voice as a paradigm
This paper briefly discussses the nature and mode of expression of power as a prelude to stressing the importance of contexts when considering language-with English as the primary focus-as power. That the sense of power varies from culture to culture has implications for the study of how English is used in the non-Anglo-Saxon nations, particularly in connection with the status of English and the new literatures in English that have emerged. Repre…
Language as power
Conversion of the tribes: Societal antecedents and the growth of Singaporean poetry
When discussing the writer's self, it is vitally important that we pay attention to questions of history and politics. This paper seeks to examine the individual self of the writer and the growth of Singaporean poetry in relation to the determining pressures of the past and the present. The centrality of the colonial experience and the recovery from the experience in terms of the political, economic, intellectual and psychological dimensions are …
Closed and open attitudes to globalised English: Notes on issues
World Englishes
Reflections on World Englishes
Poetry
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnthony KellmanAnthony Kellman was born in Barbados. He is the author of three books of poetry and two novels, and teaches Creative Writing at Augusta State University, Georgia. His book‐length epic poem of Barbados, Limetone, is scheduled for publication in 2007.Edwin ThumbooEdwin Thumboo has published five collections of poems: Rib of Earth (1956), Gods Can Die (1977), Ulysses by the Merlion (1979), A …
Braj K
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