Rey Chow

Not Like a Native Speaker

On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780231151450
• ISBN-10: 0231151454
• Artikelnr.: 41250318

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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