Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English : The Zero Style (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Ten Questions About the Zero Style; 2. Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov, Edith Templeton, Ernest Hemingway, Chinua Achebe, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch; 3. Acquisitions: Xiaolu Guo, Dinaw Mengestu, Eva Hoffman, and China Mieville; 4. Backstory: Ha Jin, J. M. Coetzee, Jana Prikryl, Dinaw Mengestu, and Katie Kitamura; 5. Conduit: The New Yorker Magazine; 6. African American Exophone: Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and Bryan Washington; 7. Conclusion: The World’s Emergency: Kim Stanley Robinson and Daisy Hildyard; Index