Weird English by Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien
With increasing frequency, readers of literature are encountering barely intelligible, sometimes unrecognisable languages created by combining one or more languages with English. Evelyn Ch'ien argues that weird English constitutes the new language of literature, implicitly launching a new literary theory. Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers travelling from the canonical works of Nabokov and 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. Ch'ien defines the allure and tactical features of a new writerly genre, even as she herself writes with a sassiness and verve that communicates her ideas with great panache.
Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming: - Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780674013377 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674013379 |
| Title | Weird English |
| Author | Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2004-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |