Post-Monolingual Anglophone Novels

Engaging with recent research in literary multilingualism studies, the global anglophone and comparative studies, the book theorizes so-called post-monolingual anglophone novels.

Birgit Neumann is Professor and Chair of English Literature & Anglophone Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

1. Introduction: Theorizing Post-monolingual Anglophone Novels; 2. "[B]inding together worlds that have been ripped apart" - The Post-Monolingual Poetics in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness; 3. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - Histories of Linguistic Entanglement in Eastern Africa; 4. "English - not my property': Ex-appropriations of Language in J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus; 5. Lost Mother Tongues and Queer Languaging in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous; 6. Travelling Languages: Creoles in Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings; 7. Conclusion: Reading Post-Monolingual Anglophone Novels