Rotten English: A Literary Anthology

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Review “Smart, beautiful, passionate, necessary: Rotten English is as canny as it is exhaustive; an extraordinary X-ray of English, as she is spoken, broken, and loved.” - Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose Her“Rotten English is a remarkable collection of vernacular poetry, prose, essays and novellas that has real and academic importance, and I applaud Ahmad for bringing this debate to a larger public. This book makes us aware of the incredible flexibility of English and charts its journey to become a truly global language....” - Chris Abani, Los Angeles Times“Roughly a billion people speak English today and, as this anthology demonstrates, they do so in infinite and rich variety.” - Washington Post“For anybody who has ever been tutted at… come and have a bath in the wonderful Englishes in this book.” - Ian McMillan, London Times Read more About the Author Dohra Ahmad is a professor at St. John's University, where she teaches postcolonial literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family. Read more