L2 Creative Writing in Asia: Texts, Contexts and Identity Work

Abstract

Ever since Kachru’s (1970) landmark studies on Indian English, and with it, his three concentric-circle model of the global spread of English (Kachru, 1986), L2 creative writing has emerged as a unique line of intellectual inquiry. Instead of viewing English learners as negatively influenced by their cultural and linguistic backgrounds, L2 creative writing emphasizes such backgrounds as resources to draw upon to create new literature, or what Kachru termed as “contact literature” (Kachru, 1985). Although much literature and related studies by the end of the 20th century tended to focus on published L2 writers— Conrad, Raja Rao, Amy Tan, Ha Jin, to name just a few—increasingly, L2 creative writing is studied in diverse pedagogical contexts as well. Despite this progress, we want to say that what we have accomplished through this special issue is but a call to more sustained research in this exciting field

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