Weird English

Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien

  • 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Introduction

1. A Shuttlecock above the Atlantic: Nabokov's Mid-Life and Mid-Geographic Crises

2. Chinky Writing

3. The Politics of Design: Arundhati Roy

4. "The Shit That's Other": Unintelligible Languages

5. Losing Our English, Losing Our Language: The Unintelligibility of Postcolonial Theory

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Weird English
  • A photo of the author

Author photo by Frédéric Marigaux.

Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota.