Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English - The Zero Style

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a 'bridge language' affects world literature by analysing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how it is mediated.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ten Questions About the Zero Style
2. Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov, Edith Templeton, Ernest Hemingway, Chinua Achebe, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch
3. Acquisitions: Xiaolu Guo, Dinaw Mengestu, Eva Hoffman, and China Miéville
4. Backstory: Ha Jin, J. M. Coetzee, Jana Prikryl, Dinaw Mengestu, and Katie Kitamura
5. Conduit: The New Yorker Magazine
6. African American Exophone: Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and Bryan Washington
7. Conclusion: The World's Emergency: Kim Stanley Robinson and Daisy Hildyard
Index

About the author

Justin Quinn is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic. He is the author of Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry (2015), and translates from Czech.

Summary

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a ‘bridge language’ affects world literature by analysing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how it is mediated.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Quinn, Quinn Justin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032861548
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3286154-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000