Lisa Lau

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lisa Lau is involved.

Title

Power and Narrative

Edited by Lisa Lau and Shari Daya

Special issue of Narrative Inquiry 17:1 (2007) vii, 158 pp.

Articles

Daya, Shari and Lisa Lau 2007 Introduction: Power and narrative Power and Narrative, Lau, Lisa and Shari Daya (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Article

Lau, Lisa 2007 The language of power and the power of language: The usage of English by South Asian writers, and the subsequent creation of South Asian image and identity Power and Narrative, Lau, Lisa and Shari Daya (eds.), pp. 27–47 | Article

This article will discuss the complexity of positionality and the implications of writing in the English language in a South Asian context. Given the postcolonial heritage of South Asia, contemporary authors producing literature in English find themselves confronted with both tremendous opportunity… read more