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Bad English - Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain (Paperback)
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Bad English - Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain (Paperback)
Series: Manchester University Press
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Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language
diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms
of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in
Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally,
playfully, and ambivalently with English's power, while exploring
what it means to move between forms of language, it makes the case
for literature as the pre-eminent medium to probe the terms of
linguistic belonging, and for a diverse and growing field of
writing in Britain defined by its inside/outside relationship to
English in its institutionalised forms. Bad English offers
innovative readings of writers including James Kelman, Tom Leonard,
Suhayl Saadi, Raman Mundair, Daljit Nagra, Xiaolu Guo, Leila
Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, and Caroline Bergvall. Drawing on
insights from applied linguistics and translation studies as well
as literary scholarship, it will appeal to students and academics
across these disciplines. -- .
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