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| Titre : | Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy : Politics in the Vernaculars (2014) |
| Auteurs : | Bernice SCHRANK, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 44 n 1 Spring/Summer 2014) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 129-148 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This essay examines the political uses to which Behan puts language in his autobiographical fiction, "Borstal Boy", both as an instrument of domination and a means of liberation. Identifying Standard English language and literature as important components of the British imperial project, Behan creates, as a linguistic alternative, ‘englishes’, a composite language in which differences of geography, class, age, education, and occupation create a demotic speech of great variability and expressive force. In so doing, Behan sabotages the cultural assumptions and justifications for colonial exploitation embedded and validated in Standard English literature and language. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
