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Author Chow, Rey.

Title Not like a native speaker : on languaging as a postcolonial experience / Rey Chow.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.44 C459n 2014    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xiv, 169 pages ; 22 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Skin tones : about language, postcoloniality, and racialization -- Derrida's legacy of the monolingual -- Not like a native speaker : the postcolonial scene of languaging and the proximity of the xenophone -- Translator, traitor : translator, mourner (or, dreaming of intercultural equivalence) -- Thinking with food, writing off center : the postcolonial work of Leung Ping-Kwan and Ma Kwok-ming -- The sounds and scripts of a Hong Kong childhood.
Subject Language acquisition -- Social aspects.
Postcolonialism -- Social aspects.
Sociolinguists -- History.
ISBN 9780231151450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231151454 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231151443 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231151446 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231522717 (e-book)
0231522711

 
    
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