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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

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EAN
9780231151450
UPC
9780231151450
ISBN
9780231151450
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Book Title
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Post
Item Length
20.8 cm
Item Weight
0.25 kg
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Not like a Native Speaker: on Languaging As a Postcolonial Experience
Item Height
210mm
Author
Rey Chow
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Item Width
140mm
Subject
Social Sciences
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named Negro in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast. In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.

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Columbia University Press
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9780231151450
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Author
Rey Chow
Publication Name
Not like a Native Speaker: on Languaging As a Postcolonial Experience
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages

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Item Height
210mm
Item Width
140mm

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Rey Chow
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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