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This is a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts, providing an invaluable introduction for anyone with an interest in the evolution and development of English and its use in contemporary world literatures.
| ISBN | 0415240190 | | Pages | 184 | | ISBN13 | 9780415240192
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 249 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 31 Jan 2002 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | Library of Congress | PR9080.5.T | | Spine width (mm) | 14 | | DEWEY | 809.04 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | 1 | | English in (post)colonial contexts | | 1 | | 2 | | Anti-colonialism in Scottish, Welsh and Irish literatures | | 21 | | 3 | | Anglo-Saxon transplantations | | 47 | | 4 | | Orality, writing and what English brings | | 71 | | 5 | | Using English in postcolonial literatures: a review of criticism | | 90 | | 6 | | Decolonisation and the survival of English | | 104 | | 7 | | Style, language(s), politics and acceptability | | 118 | | 8 | | How's the mixture? English, dialects and other languages | | 137 | | | | Concluding summary | | 155 | | | | Bibliography | | 157 | | | | Index | | 171 |
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