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Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from the canonical works of Nabokov and Hong Kingston to the linguistic terrain of Junot Díaz and Arundhati Roy. Ch'ien shows how the collision of other languages with English invigorated and propelled the evolution of language.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. A Shuttlecock above the Atlantic: Nabokov's Mid-Life and Mid-Geographic Crises 60 2. Chinky Writing I05 3. The Politics of Design: Arundhati Roy 154 4. "The Shit That's Other": Unintelligible Languages 201 5. Losing Our English, Losing Our Language: The Unintelligibility of Postcolonial Theory 243 Notes 283 Index 335

About the Author :
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

Review :
Nien-Ming Ch'ien makes a sophisticated theoretical argument by proposing that with the rise of world literatures in English, readers are encountering barely intelligible and sometimes unrecognizable English resulting from a combination of one or more languages with English. She terms this combination 'weird English'...Examining the works of such multicultural writers as Vladimir Nabokov, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Arundhati Roy, [she] posits that weird English obliterates the boundary between the sacred and the profane in language and demands a new literary theory...[Ch'ien's] somewhat unorthodox and vivacious style perfectly complements her argument. -- Aparna Zambare Library Journal 20040501 Have you noticed how the English language is being relentlessly globalized? Weird English, by Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, is a celebratory take on that trend in literature...You need only be interested in things literary in order to find this an enlightening and quite fascinating read...[It] is written with verve, and presents an intriguing and important idea. Ch'ien argues that 'weirding' English allows bi-cultural writers to create a truer, more representative linguistic space for their imagined communities. They do this by displacing the rhythms of English, subverting its rules, and pollinating it with other languages--literally...Weird English is a kind of literary street law, in which ungrammatical language, patchwork syntax, linguistic stuttering and unintelligibility are not shortcomings but the tools and bricks of identity-building...Weird English is a robustly academic work, but Ch'ien's style is quite palatable--even veined with humor. -- Mitali Saran Far Eastern Economic Review 20040701


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674029538
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 352
  • ISBN-10: 0674029534
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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