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Rotten English: a literary anthology
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Contributors:
Ahmad, Dohra, editor.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007., New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2007].
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1st ed.
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535 pages ; 21 cm.
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Dec 22, 2020
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Ahmad, D. (2007). Rotten English: a literary anthology. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

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Ahmad, Dohra. 2007. Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.

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Ahmad, Dohra, Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.

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Ahmad, Dohra. Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.

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50500|a Section 1. "Raal right singin'": vernacular poetry : |t Colonization in reverse |g and |t Bans o'killing /|r Louise Bennett --|t Wings of a dove /|r Kamau Brathwaite --|t Auld lang syne, |t Highland Mary, |g and |t Bonnie Lesley /|r Robert Burns --|g A negro love song |g and |t When Malindy sings /|r Paul Laurence Dunbar --|t Mother to son |g and |t Po' boy blues /|r Langston Hughes --|t Inglan is a bitch /|r Linton Kwesi Johnson --|t Wukhand /|r Paul Keens-Douglas --|t Tommy /|r Rudyard Kipling --|t Unrelated incidents-no. 3 /|r Tom Leonard --|t Comin back ower the border /|r Mary McCabe --|t Quashie to Buccra /|r Claude McKay --|t Dis poem /|r Mutabaruka --|t Questions! questions! /|r M. NourbeSe Philip --|t No more love poems #1 /|r Ntozake Shange.
50500|a Section 2. "So like I say...": vernacular short stories : |t Po' Sandy /|r Charles Chesnutt --|g The|t brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao /|r Junot Díaz --|t Letters from Whetu /|r Patricia Grace --|t Spunk |g and |t Story in Harlem slang /|r Zora Neale Hurston --|t Betel nut is bad magic for airplanes /|r John Kasaipwalova --|t Joebell and America /|r Earl Lovelace --|g The|t ghost of Firozsha Baag /|r Rohinton Mistry --|g The|t celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County |g and A|t true story, repeated word for word as I heard it /|r Mark Twain --|g A|t soft touch |g and |t Granny's old junk /|r Irvine Welsh --|t Only the dead know Brooklyn /|r Thomas Wolfe.
50500|a Section 3. "I wanna say I am somebody": selections from vernacular novels : |g from|t True history of the Kelly Gang /|r Peter Carey --|g from The|t snapper /|r Roddy Doyle --|g from|t Once were warriors /|r Alan Duff --|g An|t overture to the commencement of a very rigid journey, |g from|t Everything is illuminated --|g from|t Beasts of no nation /|r Uzodinma Iweala --|t Baywatch and de preacher, |g from|t Tide running /|r Oonya Kempadoo --|t Face, |g from|t Rolling the R's /|r R. Zamora Linmark --|g from|t Londonstani /|r Gautam Malkani --|g from|t No mate for the magpie /|r Frances Molloy --|g from|t Push /|r Sapphire --|g from|t Sozaboy : a novel in rotten English /|r Ken Saro-Wiwa --|g from The|t housing lark /|r Sam Selvon.
50500|a Section 4. "A new English": essays on vernacular literature : |g from The|t African writer and the English language /|r Chinua Achebe --|t How to tame a wild tongue, |g from|t Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza --|t If black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? /|r James Baldwin --|g from|t History of the voice : the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry /|r Kamau Brathwaite --|g from|t Minute on Indian education /|r Thomas Macaulay --|t African speech...English words /|r Gabriel Okara --|g The|t absence of writing or how I almost became a spy /|r M. NourbeSe Philip --|t Mother tongue /|r Amy Tan.
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ISBN:
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Includes bibliographical references.