Bad English

<p><i>Bad English </i>investigates the impact of increasing language diversity precipitated by migration globalisation and new forms of communication in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally playfully and ambivalently with English's power while exploring what it means to move between forms of language it makes the case for literature as the pre-eminent medium to probe the terms of linguistic belonging and for a diverse and growing field of writing in Britain defined by its inside/outside relationship to English in its institutionalised forms.<br><br><i>Bad English</i> offers innovative readings of writers including James Kelman Tom Leonard Suhayl Saadi Raman Mundair Daljit Nagra Xiaolu Guo Leila Aboulela Brian Chikwava and Caroline Bergvall. Drawing on insights from applied linguistics and translation studies as well as literary scholarship it will appeal to students and academics across these disciplines.</p>