Title: Not like a native speaker : on languaging as a postcolonial experience /
Authors: Chow, Rey,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Language acquisition Social aspects.; Postcolonialism Social aspects.; Sociolinguistics History.; Sociolinguists History.
Abstract: Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow''s book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself name.
Contents: Skin tones : about language, postcoloniality, and racialization -- Derrida's legacy of the monolingual -- Not like a native speaker : the postcolonial scene of languaging and the proximity of the xenophone -- Translator, traitor : translator, mourner (or, dreaming of intercultural equivalence) -- Thinking with food, writing off center : the postcolonial work of Leung Ping-Kwan and Ma Kwok-ming -- The sounds and scripts of a Hong Kong childhood.