Chapter 7. Co-constructing a community of creative writers: Exploring L2 identity formations through Bruneian playwriting

Chin, Grace V. S.

doi:10.1075/lal.19.07chi

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“…Aisyah's voice in the second excerpt suggests a very different orientation. Her formal use of standardised English not only underlines her superior standing and westernised background, but also reflects the ‘prevailing social view that English is widely associated with education, class and wealth in Brunei’ (Chin : 136). Unlike Ah Ma, she uses code‐switching and code‐mixing sparingly, just enough to indicate her Malay Muslim background, by referring to her parents and brothers, and using a Malay proverb (to describe a person who has forgotten his/her roots) and an Arabic phrase, Alhamdulillah , meaning ‘Praise be to God’.…”

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Bruneian women's writing as an emergent minor literature in English

Chin

2016

World Englishes

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This article considers how Bruneian women's writings in English constitute an emergent minor literature by analysing the subordinated status of gender and language in the nation space. Based on three key features of minor literature – linguistic deterritorialisation, political identity, and collective agency, I argue that these writings resist the homogenising influences of the state by straddling two major language discourses – the local, national discourse of Brunei Malay and the global, or international, discourse of English – and thus, two different worldviews and cultures, in the negotiation of hybrid identities and voices that collectively express an alternative community and sensibility.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%