Intro -- Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- The New Union Flag Project -- Introduction: Bad English -- Thi langwij a thi guhtr -- Dictionary trawling -- Prosthetic language -- 'Passing my voice into theirs' -- Living in translation -- 'The language is the border' -- Conclusions: 'Say Parsley' -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its contested language politics. Exploring a range of poetry and prose, it makes the case for literature as the preeminent medium to probe the terms and conditions of linguistic belonging
