Beyond the Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature

✍ Scribed by E. Dawson Varughese (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 250
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Being Beyond....Pages 1-23
Methodology and Overview of Findings: Stories as Data?....Pages 24-57
Cameroon: (Fr)Anglophone?....Pages 58-80
Nigeria: Generation ‘Y’....Pages 81-103
Uganda: The Power of the Pen....Pages 104-123
Kenya: Rifts Apart....Pages 124-150
Malaysia: Bahasa Manglish(es)....Pages 151-171
Singapore: Mad About Singlish....Pages 172-194
India: Emerging Economy, Emerging Literature....Pages 195-220
Conclusion: Beyond This?....Pages 221-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-239

✦ Subjects

Postcolonial/World Literature; African Literature; Asian Literature; Historical Linguistics; English; Twentieth-Century Literature

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