21st century literature

ASIA
• Earth’s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the
Eastern and Northern Hemisphere. It covers an area of 44, 579,000
square kilometers (17,212,000 sq mi), about 30% of Earth’s total land
area and 8.7% of its total surface area.
• Asia is notable for not only its overall
• Size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as
vast barely populated regions. Its 4.5 billion people constitute
roughly 60% of the world’s population.
 Heritage

• Is defined as the customs and traditions that are

handed down from generation to generation of
families and society. A person with Asian heritage is
someone whose family originates from Asia.
 History of Asia
This can be seen as the collective history of several distinct
peripheral coastal region such as, East Asia, South Asia, and
the Middle East. Linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian
steppe.
Asia’s history would feature major developments seen in
other parts of the world, as well as events that would affect
those other regions. These includes the trade of Silk Road,
which spread cultures, languages, religion, and disease
throughout Afro-Eurasian trade.
SILK ROAD
Let’s check out some Asian Cultures
and Traditions!!!
 Culture of Asia
It encompasses the collective and diverse customs and
traditions of art, architecture, music, literature,
lifestyle, philosophy, politics and religion that have
been practiced and maintained by numerous ethnic
groups of the continent of Asia since prehistory.
 Asian Traditions
• Buddhism: one of the predominant ones. It was established
in northern India about 2500 years ago, in response to the
life and teachings of Gautama Sidhartha who was given the
title “Buddha” or “awaked-one”
• Dim Sum: a traditional Chinese meal that consists of lots of
small dishes of a bunch of different kinds of foods, including
steamed or fried dumplings.
• Tea: This plays a major role in Asian culture, whether it’s in
China, India, or Malaysia, tea ceremonies in their various
forms are a major part of most Asian cultures.
• Origami: this is the art of folding paper. While it is quite
popular in Japan, it is also believed to have originated in
China in the first century AD. One of the most popular
origami shapes is the CRANE. The crane is thought to be a
sacred animal in Japan and legends has it that if you fold
1,000 paper cranes, your wish will come true.
• Debut: a traditional Filipino coming-of-age celebration for
young women. The occasion is somewhat reminiscent of the
Latin-American Quinceañera, the debut celebrates a young
women’s 18th birthday, the age of maturity in the
Philippines. Although reaching maturity at 18, Filipino men
mark their own Debut on their 21st birthday, with less formal
celebrations.
Traditional Asian Attire
Origami
 Health Concepts
• Asian cultures will often follow the Yin and Yang
views of Western medicine. Most will
even combine these views along
with traditional healing of their
culture.
• This culture also believes in the
balance of Yin and Yang for health.
• Asian cultures also believed that
illness comes from spiritual causes.
 Traditional Healers
• Asian cultures holds a great respect for people with
education, especially doctors.
• They are considered experts on things such as health
issues and are expected to diagnose all issues in one
visit.
 Methods of Treatment
• Acupuncture
• Herbs
• Coining: a coin dipped in metholated oil is
vigorously rubbed across the skin in a
prescribed manner, causing a mild
dermabrasion. This practice is believed to
restore balance.
• Cupping: a series of small, heated glasses are
placed on the skin, forming a suction that
leaves a red circular mark, drawing out the
bad force.
Top 5 Famous Poets in Asia:
1. Marjorie Evasco
2. Zeyar Lynn
3. Angkarn Chanthatip
4. Nguyen Do
5. Oka Rusmini
1. Marjorie Evasco
• Born on the island of Bohol in the
central Philippines. Her first two
collections of poetry, each won the
prestigious National Book Award
for Poetry from the Manila Critic’s
Circle. Writing in both English and
her mother tounge of Cebuano,
Evasco’s poetry infuses Western
imagery with the wit and irony of
her native literary tradition.
2. Zeyar Lynn
• Widely regarded as the founder of the avant-garde
LANGUAGE poetry movement in Myanmar. A form
emphasizing the centrality of language in the creation of
meaning that grew out of rising discontent with mainstream
poetry in the late 1960s-Yangon-based poet, teacher and
translator Zeyar Lynn has been a divisive figure in his home
country.
• In his poem “Chronicle of Kings”, Lynn paints the unsettling
scene of a family awaiting the rebirth of the man whose
abuses left his wife’s body “a refugee camp”: all his children
now have their own families, whose child will be his
incarnation.
3. Angkarn Chanthatip
• “The Heart’s Fifth Chamber”, the tittle of the poem of Angkarn
Chanthatip’s Southeast Asian Writer’s Prize winning collection of the
same name, is a dreamlike to the warmth and compassion that
moves through the rest of the Thai poet’s work: “the hearts dream of
peace/conquers misfortune, fans a fire that never goes out/stands
firm and knows how to listen, like rain, love and hope, temper and
heat”.
• Growing up on Khon Kaen province in Thailand’s northeast,
Chanthatip’s unsentimental portraits oof those forced to the margins
of Thai society emphasize the tension between the country’s agrarian
roots and the rampant urbanization of the present day.
 4. Nguyen Do
• Criticised by the oppressive literary
establishment in Vietnam for the somber
understones of his writing, poet and
translator Nguyen Do divides his time
between his home,country and the less
restrictive USA committed translator both
Vietnamese and Western poetry, Do’s
anthology Black Dog, Black Night:
Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry was
pivotal in bringing the full breadth of a
new generation of Vietnamese voices to a
wider audience.
5. Oka Rusmini
• Raised in cosmopolitan Jakarta, award-
winning poet and novelist Oka Rusmini’s
move to rural Bali as a teenager brought
the restrictive traditions of village life into
sharp relief-particularly those surrounding
the high-ranking Brahmana caste of her
birth.
• In her 1995 poem “Ceremony for
Returning to the Land”, Rusmini mourns
the increasing commodification of
Balinese culture and the people’s bitter
alienation from their own land.
Popular Asian Poetry and Fiction:
1. A Veil of Silk by Jared Angel (June 2014)
2. Poem by Preeyakit Buranasin (October 2014)
3. The Puppet Tree Artwork by Vasan Sitthiket (October 2013)
4. Still Life and Two Other Poems by Anna Yin (August 2014)
5. Dinh Liet by Matt Martin (October 2014)
6. Ishinomaki by Cesar Polvorosa Jr. (February 2014)
7. Why I Write by Qui-Phiet Tran (April 2014)
8. The Old Hibachi by Peter Mallett (September 2014)
9. The Dreams of Old Shanghai by Colin W. Campbell (October 2014)
10. Turnstile by Lain Maloney (October 2014)
11. Smoke and Mirrors by Sayantan Ghosh (April 2014)
12. The Bicentennial by Cesar Polvorosa Jr. (June 2014)
13. Going Back to the Emerald Hill by Chew Yi Wei (April 2013)
14. Blue Bird Island by Pauline Lacanilao (December 2013)
15. A Complete Overhaul by Stephen Jordan (March 2014)
16. The Day of Valor by Pauline Lacanilao (June 2014)
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GROUP 1

Cherish Torreña and Company

I. Enumeration:
1. It is the Earth’s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and
Northern Hemisphere.
2. It was defined as the customs and traditions that are handed down from generation to
generation of families and society.
3. They are considered experts on things such as health issues and are expected to diagnose all
issues in one visit.
4. This encompasses the collective and diverse customs and traditions of art, architecture,
music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, politics and religion that have been practiced and
maintained by numerous ethnic groups of the continent of Asia since prehistory.
5. It is a method of treatment where a coin is dipped in metholated oil that is vigorously
rubbed across the skin in a prescribed manner, causing a mild dermabrasion.
6. It is also a method of treatment with a series of small, heated glasses that are placed on the
skin, forming a suction that leaves a red circular mark, drawing out the bad force.
II. Matching Type:

1.
a. Christianity
b. Hinduism
2. 5. c. Confucianism
d. Islam
3. e. Yin and Yang
f. Buddhism
6.
4.
III. Identification:
• 1-3: give at least 3 Famous Poets in Asia.
• 4-6: Give at least 3 Asian Traditions.
 Identification:
Answers: # Famous Poets in Asia:
1. Marjorie Evasco
2. Zeyar Lynn
• Enumeration: Matching Type:
3. Angkarn Chanthatip
1. Asia 1.E 4. Nguyen Do
2. Heritage 2.A 5. Oka Rusmini
3. Traditional Healers 3.D
4. Culture of Asia 4.C # Asian Traditions:
5.B 1. Buddhism
5. Coining
6.F 2. Dim Sum
6. Cupping 3. Tea
4. Origami
5. Debut