Not Like a Native Speaker - On Languaging As a Postcolonial Experience

A riveting series of stories that portray the biopolitics of speaking and writing in a postcolonial world.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Non-English Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Skin Tones—About Language, Postcoloniality, and Racialization
1. Derrida's Legacy of the Monolingual
2. Not Like a Native Speaker: The Postcolonial Scene of Languaging and the Proximity of the Xenophone
3. Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence)
4. Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: The Postcolonial Work of Leung Ping-kwan and Ma Kwok-ming
5. The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood
Notes
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University and the author of numerous influential books, including several published by Columbia University Press: Primitive Passions; The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films. A book about her writings, The Rey Chow Reader, was edited by Paul Bowman. Her work has appeared in more than ten languages.

Zusammenfassung

A riveting series of stories that portray the biopolitics of speaking and writing in a postcolonial world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rey Chow, Rey (Duke University) Chow, Chow Rey
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.09.2014
• EAN: 9780231151450
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15145-0
• Seiten: 192
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Politics & government, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Historical and comparative linguistics