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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b13161724.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-333) and index.".
- catalog extent "339 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Weird English.".
- catalog identifier "0674013379 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Weird English.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Weird English.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "823/.9109 22".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Dialect literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Dialect literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 21st century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English language Foreign elements.".
- catalog subject "English language Variation.".
- catalog subject "Language and languages in literature.".
- catalog subject "Languages in contact English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Languages, Mixed.".
- catalog subject "Minorities in literature.".
- catalog subject "Multiculturalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR888.L35 C47 2004".
- catalog subject "Speech in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Weird English / Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".