Beyond the postcolonial : world Englishes literature / / E. Dawson Varughese
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| Autore: |
Dawson Varughese Emma
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| Titolo: |
Beyond the postcolonial : world Englishes literature / / E. Dawson Varughese
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 427 |
| Soggetto topico: | English language - Variation |
| Postcolonialism | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond the postcolonial |
| ISBN: | 1-283-58851-X |
| 9786613900968 | |
| 1-137-26523-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817130403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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