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    Punning in Punglish, sounding 'poreign': Daljit Nagra and the politics of language

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    Volume
    17
    Pagination
    686 - 705 (25)
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles
    DOI
    10.1080/1369801X.2014.950312
    Journal
    Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies
    Issue
    5
    ISSN
    1369-801X
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    Abstract
    This essay explores Daljit Nagra’s poetry (Look We Have Coming To Dover! (2007), and Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! (2011)) in the context of contemporary British language politics. It argues that Nagra’s approach to language – combining heteroglot, multivoiced experimentalism with an etymological attention to the historical constructedness of language – offers a riposte to monolingual ideologies, which also resituates English as a product and residue of colonial history. While Nagra’s poems sometimes come close to regarding the histories enfolded within English as a linguistic and poetic impasse, they continue to invest in the notion of resistance and individual agency in language; and specifically, they revel in poetic dramatization of the accommodations and convivialities of everyday multilingual language practice.
    Authors
    GILMOUR, RH
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    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13181
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    English
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