Rotten English : a literary anthology

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W.W. Norton & Co

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[2007]

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1st ed

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English

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Section 1. "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.

Section 2. "So like I say...": vernacular short stories : Po' Sandy / Charles Chesnutt --

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz --

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.

Section 3. "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 were warriors / Alan Duff --

An overture to the commencement of a very rigid journey, from Everything is illuminated --

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.

Section 4. "A new English": essays on vernacular literature : from The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe --

How to tame a wild tongue, from Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza --

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.

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