Contact Zones, Discursive Spaces: The Case of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop

• Main Author: Narciso, Alana Leilani C
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: creative writing; contact zone; discursive space; critical pedagogy; Art Practice; Creative Writing; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/akda/vol3/iss2/5; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/akda/article/1057/viewcontent/4_Narciso.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Silliman University National Writers Workshop’s (SUNWW) historical circumstance has been implicated in the Cold War. As such it is accused of perpetuating colonial ideas on language and literary production. Its use of New Criticism is said to be detrimental to nation-building as this critical pe...