The Poetry House - Asia
Website: http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/Petryrooms/asia.html
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Elaine Ho
Country: Asia
Type: Organization
Description: Compared to classical poetry in many indigenous Asian languages, Asian poetry in English has a very recent provenance. East of the Indian sub-continent, in the time of the British empire, English had more often been the language of trade, commerce, and technology transfer than of literary and imaginative writing. In Francophone Asia or what used to be French Indo-China, and other European linguistic areas, for example, the former Dutch East Indies, English would not have been allowed to prevail at all. A third aspect of this history concerns countries like Thailand, China, or Japan which had been shaped by the impact of European imperialism but were not officially colonized. This variegated history helps to explain the uneven presence and current productivity of poetry in English in East and Southeast Asia.
(Directory entry)
Website: http://www.thepoetryhouse.org/Petryrooms/asia.html
Email Address: Undisclosed
Editor/Consultant: Elaine Ho
Country: Asia
Type: Organization
Description: Compared to classical poetry in many indigenous Asian languages, Asian poetry in English has a very recent provenance. East of the Indian sub-continent, in the time of the British empire, English had more often been the language of trade, commerce, and technology transfer than of literary and imaginative writing. In Francophone Asia or what used to be French Indo-China, and other European linguistic areas, for example, the former Dutch East Indies, English would not have been allowed to prevail at all. A third aspect of this history concerns countries like Thailand, China, or Japan which had been shaped by the impact of European imperialism but were not officially colonized. This variegated history helps to explain the uneven presence and current productivity of poetry in English in East and Southeast Asia.
(Directory entry)
