Beyond the postcolonial
Subtitle: world Englishes literature
By: Emma Dawson Varughese
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230300965
Subjects: English language; Variation; Postcolonialism
Description: This book looks at the state of emerging writing in English from four African coutries, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, through fieldwork and textual analysis. It offers an interdisciplinary enquiry into the field of work literature in English through interviews with writers, publishers, and academics from around the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Methodology and overview of findings: stories as data?; title: Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone?; title: Nigeria: Generation Y; title: Uganda: the power of the pen; title: Kenya: rifts apart; title: Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es); title: Singapore: mad about Singlish; title: India: emerging economy, emerging literature.