Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

by Rey Chow

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231151454
• ISBN13: 9780231151450
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"