Dimensions
This book is out of print.
This anthology encompasses distinctly different kinds of writing and encourages students to explore various aspects of written and visual language. The material in Dimensions focuses on gender roles and stereotypes, changing personal relationships, large-scale political change and first-person accounts of living under political oppression.
It is an anthology that probes deep into the human experience, bringing together provocative visual texts – such as ‘Windsurfing Bali’ and ‘The Holy State of Matrimony’ – and the poetry of Vikram Seth. Moving, personal letters and interviews from Cambodia, Korea and Thailand shed light on past times.
- Index
- Dimensions: Asian Writers
Dimensions: Asian Writers and their Domestic and Global Environment
These activities are intended to encourage students to interpret the ways people express themselves and to develop their own personal expression skills, while critically examining literature by Asian writers.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- construct meanings from a range of texts--some complex in construction and subject matter--and justify these meanings with detailed and well chosen evidence from the text
- consider a variety of interrelationships between texts, contexts, readers, listeners and writers
- select text type, subject matter and language to suit a specific audience and purpose
- write texts that are complex in purpose and subject with formal language and construction.
Suggested Approach
In activity 3 'Searching the Internet for Asian Women Writers', if there is any uncertainty in students about how or where to start, refer them to a specific website with a question to answer, for example:
What has Shauna Singh Baldwin learned from writing?
http://www.sawnet.org/books/writing/shauna_writing.html
How has the threat of imminent nuclear war affected the views of Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy?
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fname=cover_story&fodname=19980803&sid=1
