Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Chow, Rey
Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Chow, Rey

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

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between...
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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Chow, Rey

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

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Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience by Chow, Rey

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

CHF 61.99
Author: Rey Chow
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Rey Chow
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 09/23/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780231151450


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Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 798

About the Author
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.
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