Rotten English
It may be in English: but often it is in an English which is like a howl, or a shout or a machine-gun or the wind or a wave.
— Kamau Brathwaite
Please check out the latest Politics and Culture–a special issue that I’ve put together on “Rotten English.” The contributors are:
Mandakini Dubey on the Trooth of Defiance
Dohra Ahmad on Rotten English
David Golumbia on Evelyn Ch’ien
Evelyn Ch’ien on Weird English
Phil Wegner on World Bank Literature
Rashmi Varma on the Cultural Turn
If the good people out there could post this information on the postcolonial and cultural studies listservs, I’d appreciate that very much. Many thanks.
P.S. Here is Amardeep’s take on this issue.
