TY - BOOK AU - Chien,Evelyn Nien-Ming TI - Weird English SN - 0674018192 (bound pbk.) U1 - 823.9109 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, Mass., London PB - Harvard University Press KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Language and languages in literature KW - 21st century KW - Dialect literature, American KW - Dialect literature, English KW - Languages in contact KW - English-speaking countries KW - American fiction KW - English language KW - Foreign elements KW - Multiculturalism in literature KW - Variation N1 - Originally published: 2004; Includes bibliographical references and index; A; shuttlecock above the atlantic: Nabokovs mid-life and mid-geographic crises --; Chinky writing --; The; politics of design: Arundhati Roy --; The; shit thats other: unintelligible languages --; Losing our English, losing our language: the unintelligibility of postcolonial theory ER -