Bibliograph

Weird English, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien

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Weird English, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-333) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Weird English

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

54066574

Responsibility statement

Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien

Review

"Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from the canonical works of Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to the less-critiqued linguistic terrain of Junot Diaz and Arundhati Roy. It examines the syntactic and grammatical innovations of these authors, who use English to convey their ambivalence toward or enthusiasm for English or their political motivations for altering its rules. Ch'ien looks at how the collision of other languages with English invigorated and propelled the evolution of language in the twentieth century and beyond."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

A shuttlecock above the Atlantic: Nabokov's mid-life and mid-geographic crises -- Chinky writing -- The politics of design: Arundhati Roy -- "The shit that's other": unintelligible languages -- Losing our English, losing our language: the unintelligibility of postcolonial theory

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