Weird English / / Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien.
With increasing frequency, readers of literature are encountering barely intelligible, sometimes unrecognizable languages created by combining one or more languages with English. Evelyn Ch'ien argues that weird English constitutes the new language of literature, implicitly launching a new liter...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. A Shuttlecock above the Atlantic: Nabokov’s Mid-Life and Mid-Geographic Crises
- 2. Chinky Writing
- 3. The Politics of Design: Arundhati Roy
- 4. “The Shit That’s Other”: Unintelligible Languages
- 5. Losing Our English, Losing Our Language: The Unintelligibility of Postcolonial Theory
- Notes
- Index