Dan Disney

List of John Benjamins publications in which Dan Disney is involved.

Title

Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel

Edited by Dan Disney

Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.

Articles

Disney, Dan 2014 Chapter 3. “Is this how it’s supposed to work?”: Poetry as a radical technology in L2 creative writing classrooms Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel, Disney, Dan (ed.), pp. 41–56 | Article

In this chapter, Dan Disney speculates on those processes at work when a poem transmits into a non-native language. In acquiring a speaking position, L2 proto-poets participate in processes somewhat similar to poets using their L1, and yet particular pressures exist: how to feel like ourselves in a… read more

Disney, Dan 2014 Introduction: Beyond Babel? Exploring second language creative writing Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel, Disney, Dan (ed.), pp. 1–10 | Article