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New departures, new worlds: World Englishes literature

Emma Dawson Varughese explores the meaning of ‘World Englishes literature’ and suggests it can be defined as ‘beyond the postcolonial’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2012

Emma Dawson Varughese
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This article focuses on Anglophone writing of a British postcolonial legacy as opposed to writing of a Lusophone, Francophone, Belgian, Dutch, or German legacy. Moreover, this specific phrase of ‘Anglophone writing of a British postcolonial legacy’ is employed in recognition of a move away from the label ‘postcolonial writing’. The article will suggest that recently published texts are engaged in new departures which seemingly appear to be taking us away from the classic ‘postcolonial’ text. Thus, in recognition of these new departures, the terminology used in this article will attempt to better encapsulate the sense of the provenance of the writing and yet at the same time move the terminology ‘forward’, away from the label of the ‘postcolonial’.

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English Today , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 15 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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