Weird English / Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien.
Weird English / Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Date
2004.
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N823.9109/6
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English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
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.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2004.
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"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...
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Weird English / Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other version (online)
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N823.9109/6
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74VKwaDE5d3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwaDE5d3l
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0674013379 (hc. alk. paper)
9780674013377 (alk. paper)
0674013379 (alk. paper)
9780674013377 (hc. alk. paper)
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823.9109
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991018352409702626
