"Yup, So-Jeer": Interlanguage and Ruptured Translation in Charles Dickens's The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
Journal: ScholarsArchive  (Brigham Young University)
Year: 2019

Co-authored by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, The Perils of Certain English Prisoners is a tale of linguistic subversion in colonial spaces. Christian George King-a native "Sambo" that betrays the English colonists on Silver Store to a marauding band of pirates-demonstrates a linguistic phenomenon that scholars call interlanguage, or a quasi-language that partially resembles both English and his native language. Because of its status as a language between languages, King's interlanguage dis