Weird English
By: Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Language and languages in literature; English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Dialect literature, American -- History and criticism; Dialect literature, English -- History and criticism; Languages in contact -- English-speaking countries; American fiction -- History and criticism; English language -- Foreign elements; Multiculturalism in literature; English language -- Variation; Minorities in literature; Speech in literature; Languages, Mixed
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-333) and index.