Weird English

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.

subjects: Multiculturalism in literature,  Foreign elements,  Languages in contact,  Mixed Languages,  English Dialect literature,  History and criticism,  English language,  Minorities in literature,  Speech in literature,  Variation,  American Dialect literature,  English fiction,  American fiction,  Language and languages in literature,  Chinese literature, history and criticism,  English literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century,  English fiction, history and criticism, 21st century,  American fiction, history and criticism,  English language, variation,  Languages, mixed

Places: English-speaking countries

Times: 20th century,  21st century