Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply "e;happen"e;: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also  considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that thehistorical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole.?

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply “happen”: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also  considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that thehistorical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole.

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Introduction: Redefining English in Asia for the Twenty-First Century.- British Romanticism in China: Received, Revised, and Resurrected.- Teaching and Learning English Language during the Early British Rule in India.- The Crisis and the Challenge: South Korean English Studies in the Age of Digital Transformation.- Seminar in the Ruins: The Salzburg Seminar and its Significance in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in East Asia.- Cultural Diplomacy, Literature(s) in English and Creative Writing in Cold War Asia.- Stephen Spender and Japanese Atomic Bomb Poetry in the 1950s.- Unfree Association: On Philippine Creative Writing and US Cultural Diplomacy.- The Crisis in the Humanities: A Perspective from the Middle East.- De-, and Re-Centering: Teaching Dystopian Texts to Emirati Students.- The Canon Zoomed Out: Big Data and the Literary Canon.- The New “Westernism” in the Intercultural Humanities.- Global English’s Centers of Consecration.- Asian English in Arnold, Mill and Newman.- Literature and the Humanities in the Age of Technological Disruption.