Involuntary Associations: Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes
Involuntary Associations: Postcolonial Studies and World Englishes
Associate Professor of English Literary Studies
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Abstract
In the context of English’s apparent worldwide spread, this book brings together the fields of postcolonial studies and world Englishes, arguing that this is a necessary and long overdue connection. Although postcolonial studies appears to have its origins in literary studies, and accordingly in the study of language, in fact there have been few connections with fields in linguistics that are clearly relevant to postcolonial approaches to English in particular. The book chiefly makes connections with the growing field of World Englishes studies, considering points of contact, differences in emphasis, and fundamental disagreements. It proposes that postcolonial studies can be renewed through engaging with World Englishes studies, but also that postcolonial studies as a discipline can offer powerful frameworks for World Englishes studies itself. The book examines the existing and potential connections between the fields through examples such as postcolonial dictionaries, postcolonial composition, the language of global citizenship, and the interface between World Literatures and World Englishes. It concludes that World Englishes, by contrast with a monolithic Global English, contribute to a vision of communication that resists globalization’s demand for accessibility and transparency.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Involuntary Associations: ‘Postcolonial Studies’ and ‘World Englishes’
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Grammars of Living Break their Tense: World Englishes and Cultural Translation
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English in the Conversation of Mankind: World Englishes and Global Citizenship
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Declarations of Linguistic Independence: The Postcolonial Dictionary
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Writing after the End of Empire: Composition, Community, and Creativity
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Slow Reading: The Opacity Of World Literatures
- Conclusion: English Remains, Englishes Remain
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End Matter
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