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Legacies of Colonial English
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Legacies of Colonial English

Legacies of Colonial English is abook about varities aqnd dialects  of the English language. It explains how due to colonialism the English language began to varieies and have lots of Dialects.As a result of colonisation, many varieties of English now exist around the world. The book closely examine a wide range of Englishes – including those in North and South America, South Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand – and explain why many of them still reflect nonstandard British usage from the distant past.



 
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Tags: English, ndash, South, Legacies, language, Colonial
Romanticism and Colonial Disease
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Romanticism and Colonial DiseaseRomanticism and Colonial Disease

"Alan Bewell has written one of the most important and original assessments of Romanticism to have appeared for many a long year. Romanticism and Colonial Disease is new historicism at its best. Packed with detailed and original research, it refocuses the Romantic movement in a completely unexpected way, demanding that we rethink the literature with which we thought we were familiar. But it does more than this, it also changes our understanding of British culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and redefines our understanding of colonialism
 
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Tags: Romanticism, Disease, Colonial, original, understanding
Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India 1822-1922
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Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India 1822-1922Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India 1822-1922

This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British Colonial Literature and Culture.
 
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Tags: Literature, Culture, British, Colonial, Civility, Literature, Empire, Culture
English as a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices
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English as a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual PracticesEnglish as a Local Language: Post-colonial Identities and Multilingual Practices

This book explores how multilingualism involving English is ordered in post-colonial, globalizing societies.
 
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Tags: colonial, English, Language, Practices, Identities, Multilingual
Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War (After the Empire)
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Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War (After the Empire)Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War (After the Empire)

"Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam" proposes a new approach to Francophone Studies through an examination of four specific Algerian and Vietnamese novels written in French by women. The connections between their works and shared colonial history lead us to a deeper understanding of postcolonial literature.

 
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Tags: Empire, Remnants, Vietnam, Algeria, colonial, After