Rotten English : a literary anthology /
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| Author / Creator: | Ahmad, Dohra. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. |
| Description: | 535 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6684893 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "This Is Ma Trooth"
- Section 1. "Raal Right Singin'": Vernacular Poetry
- "Colonization in Reverse" and "Bans O'Killing"
- "Wings of a Dove"
- "Auld Lang Syne," "Highland Mary," and "Bonnie Lesley"
- "A Negro Love Song" and "When Malindy Sings"
- "Mother to Son" and "Po' Boy Blues"
- "Inglan Is a Bitch"
- "Wukhand"
- "Tommy"
- "Unrelated Incidents-No. 3"
- "Comin Back Ower the Border"
- "Quashie to Buccra"
- "Dis Poem"
- "Questions! Questions!"
- "No more love poems #I"
- Section 2. "So Like I Say...": Vernacular Short Stories
- "Po' Sandy"
- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
- "Letters from Whetu"
- "Spunk" and "Story in Harlem Slang"
- "Betel Nut Is Bad Magic for Airplanes"
- "Joebell and America"
- "The Ghost of Firozsha Baag"
- "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It"
- "A Soft Touch" and "Granny's Old Junk"
- "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn"
- Section 3. "I Wanna Say I Am Somebody": Selections from Vernacular Novels
- from True History of the Kelly Gang
- from The Snapper
- from Once Were Warriors
- "An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey," from Everything is Illuminated
- from Beasts of No Nation
- "Baywatch and de Preacher," from Tide Running
- "Face," from Rolling the R's
- from Londonstani
- from No Mate for the Magpie
- from Push
- from Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English I said to myself, " trouble don begin"
- from The Housing Lark
- Section 4. "A New English": Essays on Vernacular Literature
- from "The African Writer and the English Language"
- "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?"
- from History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry
- from "Minute on Indian Education"
- "African Speech...English Words"
- "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy"
- "Mother Tongue"
- Glossary
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
