Rotten English: A Literary Anthology by Alan Duff, Langston Hughes, Patricia Grace, Paul Keens-Douglas, James Baldwin, Charles W. Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Roddy Doyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dohra Ahmad, Tom Leonard, Robert Burns, Mutabaruka, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Gabriel Okara, Amy Tan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Gautam Malkani, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Frances Molloy, Sapphire, Earl Lovelace, Mary McCabe, Claude McKay, John Kasaipwalova, R. Zamora Linmark, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Uzodinma Iweala, Rohinton Mistry, Chinua Achebe, Irvine Welsh, Oonya Kempadoo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Rudyard Kipling, Ntozake Shange, Louise Bennett-Coverley, M. NourbeSe Philip, Junot Díaz, Peter Carey, Paul Laurence Dunbar

544 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction poetry short stories challenging informative slow-paced

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"Rotten English" spans the globe to offer an overview of the best non-standard English writing of the past two centuries, with a focus on the most recent decades. During the last twelve years, half of the Man Booker awards went to novels written i...

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