Description: Further DetailsTitle: Not Like a Native SpeakerCondition: NewEAN: 9780231151450ISBN: 9780231151450Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/23/2014Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Rey ChowLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: On Languaging as a Postcolonial ExperienceISBN-10: 0231151454Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Not Like a Native Speaker
Title: Not Like a Native Speaker
EAN: 9780231151450
ISBN: 9780231151450
Release Date: 09/23/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience
ISBN-10: 0231151454
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Not like a Native Speaker : on Languaging As a Postcolonial Experience
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, Globalization, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.3 Oz
Author: Rey Chow
Item Length: 8.2 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
