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[Dave Monroe]

Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming.  Weird English.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

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 literary
theory.

Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox
uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from
the canonical works of Nabokov and Hong Kingston to
the less critiqued linguistic terrain of Junot Díaz
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....

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CHIWEI.html


		
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