Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction [Hardcover]

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism.Introduction: Languages in Literature
1. The Place of Languages in the Space of Post-globalism: Bilingualism, Bullhorns and Blunders
2. Award-cultures in the Era of Post-globalization: Prize-winning in a 'Flat'-World
3. In-'visible' Multingualness: Linguistic Exhibitionism in the Post-global Turn
4. Outsourcing English: Liberty, Linguistic Lust, and Loathing In Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
5. Curried English: Flawed Fluency, Markedness and Diglossia in Brick Lane
6. Language Liquidation versus Language Appropriation: Tracing the Trajectory of Linguistic Death and Unease in Unaccustomed Earth; Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Linguistic Insecurity and Linguistic Imperialism: Resuscitating Renaissance 'Re-Linguiscism' in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence
Conclusion: What is Linguistic Exhibitionism Good For?

Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction is a timely, wide-ranging and thought-provoking work that simultaneously reasserts the power of literature and questions its influence on linguistic diversity and (in)tolerance. Because it reminds its readers of the importance of language difference and multilingualism, it will be of interest to a wide range of students and scholars but & it will mostly appeal to those of applied linguistics, multilingualism, stylistics, postcolonial studies and cultural studies. (No?mie N?lis, English Text Construction, Vol. 10 (1), 2017)

Pandeys book is a timely good read for our post-global literary scene. It is a cogent account of linguistic imbalance in literature, literary capital, and canon formatlC3