1st Edition
The Language of Postcolonial Literatures An Introduction
By Ismail S. Talib
Copyright 2002
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts. The Language of Postcolonial Literatures draws on a range of writers, from Jean Rhys and Derek Walcott to Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Salman Rushdie, to show how English has been shaped by and had to contend with other languages in former... Read more
1. English in (post) Colonial Contexts. 2. Anti colonialism in Scottish, Welsh and Irish literatures 3. Anglo-Saxon transplantations 4. Orality, writing and what English brings 5. Using English in post colonial literature's: a review of criticism 6. Decolonisation and the Survival of English 7. Style, languages, politics, and acceptability. 8 How's the mixture? English, dialects and other languages; Concluding summary.
Biography
Ismail S.Talib is a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore.
