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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785789903321

Autore

Varughese E. Dawson

Titolo

Beyond the Postcolonial [[electronic resource] ] : World Englishes Literature / / by E. Dawson Varughese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58851-X

9786613900968

1-137-26523-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

427

820.9

Soggetti

Literature   

African literature

Oriental literature

Linguistics

English language

Literature, Modern-20th century

Postcolonial/World Literature

African Literature

Asian Literature

Historical Linguistics

English

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Methodology and overview of findings: stories as data? -- Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone? -- Nigeria: Generation Y -- Uganda: the power of the pen -- Kenya: rifts apart -- Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es) -- Singapore: mad about Singlish -- India: emerging economy, emerging literature.

Sommario/riassunto

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the



prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. An insistence on fieldwork and linguistics makes this book scene-changing in its approach to understanding and reading emerging literature in English.