Breaking Broken English

Author : Michelle Hartman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654667

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Breaking Broken English by Michelle Hartman Pdf

Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States. That alliance is once again exerting a powerful influence on American society as Black American and Arab American activists and cultural workers are joining forces in formations like the Movement for Black Lives and Black for Palestine to address social justice issues. In Breaking Broken English, Hartman explores the historical and current manifestations of this relationship through language and literature, with a specific focus on Arab American literary works that use the English language creatively to put into practice many of the theories and ideas advanced by Black American thinkers. Breaking Broken English shows how language is the location where literary and poetic beauty meet the political in creative work. Hartman draws out thematic connections between Arabs/Arab Americans and Black Americans around politics and culture and also highlights the many artistic ways these links are built. She shows how political and cultural ideas of solidarity are written in creative texts and emphasizes their potential to mobilize social justice activists in the United States and abroad in the ongoing struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

Author : Rob Jackaman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015057639158

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Broken English/breaking English by Rob Jackaman Pdf

This book discusses the work of a number of prominent contemporary poets writing in English. It argues that increasingly English as a poetic discourse has come under pressure from the hitherto marginalized forms of the language. -- book jacket.

Author : DBC Pierre
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571268436

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Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre Pdf

DBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen. Released for the first time from an institution rumoured to have been founded for an illegitimate child of Charles II, they are suddenly plunged into a round-the-clock world churning with opportunity, rowdy with the chatter of freedom, democracy, self-empowerment and sex. A wild and raucous picaresque dripping with flavours of British bacon and nasty Russian vodka, Ludmila's Broken English is a tale of tango-ing twins on a journey into the unknown. A ride so outrageously improbable it just may happen, DBC Pierre's second novel confirms his place in the ranks of today's most original storytellers.

Author : Paula Blank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134774739

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Broken English by Paula Blank Pdf

The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars in both linguistic and literary works of the time.

Author : Marita A. Hansen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534949992

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Broken English by Marita A. Hansen Pdf

For me, the name Dante conjured up two images. The first was the epic depictions of Hell from Dante's Inferno, with people burning for their sins. The second image was a sexual depiction. I don't know where it came from, but as far back as I can remember, I had always associated the name Dante with a beautiful and sexy man. I'd imagined a dark-haired, dark-eyed, gorgeous lothario, the type who could capture a woman's heart with just one look. Dante was the Fabio of my generation, the heartthrob that got women's hearts beating fast, made us want this man to rip our clothes off and to throw us onto the bed. Little did I know that the Dante that walked into my life was very different from the one I'd imagined. Oh, he was dark-haired, dark-eyed, gorgeous, even a lothario ... just ... he wasn't a man. He was a fifteen-year-old boy who was going to send me to the Hell his namesake had written about. And I was his teacher.

Author : Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501360107

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Multilingual Literature as World Literature by Jane Hiddleston,Wen-chin Ouyang Pdf

Multilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language, nation and genre, and makes visible different modes of circulation across languages, nations, media and cultures. The contributors to Multilingual Literature as World Literature examine four major areas of critical research. First, by looking at how engaging with multilingualism as a mode of reading makes visible the multiple pathways of circulation, including as aesthetics or poetics emerging in the literary world when languages come into contact with each other. Second, by exploring how politics and ethics contribute to shaping multilingual texts at a particular time and place, with a focus on the local as a site for the interrogation of global concerns and a call for diversity. Third, by engaging with translation and untranslatability in order to consider the ways in which ideas and concepts elude capture in one language but must be read comparatively across multiple languages. And finally, by proposing a new vision for linguistic creativity beyond the binary structure of monolingualism versus multilingualism.

Author : Erin Bell,Cheryl D. Edelson,Will Gray,Matthew Paproth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781498597906

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The Interior Landscapes of Breaking Bad by Erin Bell,Cheryl D. Edelson,Will Gray,Matthew Paproth Pdf

Already acknowledged by Metacritic and the Guinness World Records as the highest-rated series in the history of television, Breaking Bad has elicited an unprecedented amount of criticism. Writers both popular and academic, columnists as well as eager commenters, have addressed every imaginable topic, from the show’s characterization and major scenes, to fine details such as Walt’s knack for picking up habits from those he kills, and the symbolism inherent within the cars that characters own. This book considers another perspective, one relatively unexplored to date. By considering the series from the perspective of its interior spaces, two possibilities emerge. Firstly, the spaces become a tangible record of their characters’ inner lives, one that provides something like an objective correlative or photographic negative of their thought processes and approach to the world. They provide more, and richer ways to trace the course of character, action, and themes throughout the series. Secondly, Breaking Bad’s spaces are not simply acted upon or within: they interact with characters as well. Interpreted through the theories of Judith Butler, Michel de Certeau, and many others, the series’ homes, labs, RVs and elevators take on new significance. The collection plumbs the interior spaces of Breaking Bad from many angles. Ultimately, these diverse perspectives enrich an appreciation for the series and its innovative handling of interiors (both literal and metaphorical). They also suggest new ways of reading the series, ensuring it can continue to be explored by academics, students, and fans well into the future.

Author : English spelling book
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339559

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An English spelling-book. To which are added first lessons in grammar [&c.]. by English spelling book Pdf

Author : English Spelling Book
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000573741

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An English Spelling-book, Containing Numerous Tables of Words for Spelling, and Exercises in Reading, Etc by English Spelling Book Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112069828439

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The Modern World Dictionary of the English Language ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : A. Aleksandrov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Russian language
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3SLR

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A new and complete Russian-English dictionary by A. Aleksandrov Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 818606205X

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Harrap's essential English Dictionary by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alison M. Phipps
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781845410537

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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival by Alison M. Phipps Pdf

Telling the stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages, this book takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. It provides descriptions of the world of language learning. It examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages.

Author : Pedro Carolino
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486835006

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English as She Is Spoke by Pedro Carolino Pdf

Originally conceived as a Portuguese-English phrase book, this literary curiosity was written by an author who, remarkably, spoke no English. With the help of a pair of dictionaries, Pedro Carolino translated a series of expressions from his native Portuguese into French and from French into English. The result is a volume of unintentional hilarity, praised by Mark Twain in his appreciative Introduction for its "miraculous stupidities." Imagine the Portuguese traveler, with this book in hand, offering grooming tips, "Dress your hairs," making polite dinner conversation, "Like you the soup?" and inviting an acquaintance to take a walk, "Let us go to respire the air." The collection is organized into sections of familiar phrases, familiar dialogues, and familiar letters — which might not strike the native English speaker as particularly familiar, concluding with a selection of humorous anecdotes. As Twain observed, "In this world of uncertainties, there is, at any rate, one thing which may be pretty confidently set down as a certainty: and that is, that this celebrated little phrase-book will never die while the English language lasts. Its delicious unconscious ridiculousness, and its enchanting naïvete are as supreme and unapproachable, in their way, as are Shakespeare's sublimities."

Author : Juan Flores
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arts, Puerto Rican
ISBN : 0231110774

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From Bomba to Hip-hop by Juan Flores Pdf

Flores investigates the historical experience of Puerto Ricans in New York, reflecting their varied areas of cultural expression in the diaspora against the background of contemporary debates in Puerto Rico and recent developments in cultural theory. Close studies of urban space and performance, popular musical styles, and Nuyorican literature highlight the complexities and contradictions of Latino identity.