Hong Kong as a Test Case for World Literature

Authors

  • Michael Tsang

Keywords:

Hong Kong, Neo-coloniality, Language politics, World Literature

Abstract

This article posits Hong Kong as a test case for several theoretical perspectives currently developed in the rising field of world literature. Focusing on three main areas—namely, Hong Kong’s semi-peripheral neocoloniality, its language politics, and the proliferation of the poetry genre—the article aims to examine how world literature and Hong Kong can strike a dialogue with each other, exploring each other’s limits. For Hong Kong to make meaningful contributions to world literature, it desperately needs to build a name for itself as a literature of its own concerns.

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Author Biography

Michael Tsang

Michael Tsang is currently a Research Associate in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University. He holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick with a thesis on Hong Kong English writing. His book, Hong Kong and its English Writing: At Interregnum, is forthcoming with Routledge in 2019.

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Published

2021-11-02

How to Cite

Tsang , M. (2021). Hong Kong as a Test Case for World Literature. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 4(1), 9–23. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/84