| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
535 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-527). |
| Contents |
"Raal right singin'": vernacular poetry. Colonization in reverse" and Bans O'killing / Louise Bennett -- Wings of a dove / Kamau Brathwaite -- Auld lang syne, Highland Mary, and "Bonnie Lesley" / Robert Burns -- A negro love song and When Malindy sings / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Mother to son and Po' boy blues / Langston Hughes -- Inglan is a bitch / Linton Kwesi Johnson -- Wukhand / Paul Keens-Douglas -- Tommy / Rudyard Kipling -- Unrelated incidents-no.3 / Tom Leonard -- Comin back ower the border / Mary McCabe -- Quashie to Buccra / Claude McKay -- Dis poem / Mutabaruka -- Questions! Questions! / M. NourbeSe Philip -- no more love poems #1 / Ntozake Shange -- "So like I say ... ": vernacular short stories. Po' Sandy / Charles Chestnutt -- The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz -- Letters from Whetu / Patricia Grace -- Spunk and Story in Harlem slang / Zora Neale Hurston -- Betel nut is bad magic for airplanes / John Kasaipwalova -- Joebell and America / Earl Lovelace -- The ghost of Firozsha Baag / Rohinton Mistry -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County and A True story, repeated word for word as I heard it / Mark Twain -- A soft touch and Granny's old junk / Irvine Welsh -- Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe. "I wanna say I am somebody": selections from vernacular novels. from True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey -- from The snapper / Roddy Doyle -- from Once there were warriors / Alan Duff -- An overture to the commencement of a very rigid journey / Jonathan Safran Foer -- from Beasts of no nation / Uzodinma Iweala -- Baywatch and de preacher from Tide running / Oonya Kempadoo -- Face, from Rolling the R's / R. Zamora Linmark -- from Londonstani / Gautam Malkani -- from No mate for the magpie / Frances Molloy -- from Push / Sapphire -- from Sozaboy: a novel in rotten English / Ken Saro-Wiwa -- from The housing lark / Sam Selvon. "A new English": essays on vernacular literature. |
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The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is? / James Baldwin -- from History of the voice: the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry / Kamau Brathwaite -- from Minute on Indian education / Thomas Macaulay -- African speech ... English words / Gabriel Okara -- The absence of writing or How I almost became a spy / M. NourbeSe Philip -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan. |
| Summary |
An oveview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. |
| Subject |
English literature.
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English-speaking countries -- Literary collections.
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Dialect literature, English.
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| Added Author |
Ahmad, Dohra.
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| ISBN |
9780393329605 (pbk.) |
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0393329607 (pbk.) |
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