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Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Students’ Situated Preferences for ‘Native’ and ‘Non‐Native’ English‐Speaking Schoolteachers and Private Tutors in Hong Kong

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English private tutoring (EPT) has become a major site of English learning for students in many examination‐oriented societies, yet world Englishes scholarship has rarely looked inside shadow education. This article compares how the same learners reason about their preferences for so‐called native and non‐native English‐speaking teachers ...
Kevin Wai Ho Yung
wiley   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
wiley   +1 more source

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