Rotten English: a literary anthology

"Raal right singin'" : vernacular poetry: "Colonization in reverse" and "Bans O'killing" / Louise Bennett ; "Wings of a dove" / Kamau Brathwaite

"Auld lang syne", "Highland Mary", and "Bonnie Lesley" / Robert Burns ; "A negro love song" and "When Malindy sings" / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; "Mother to son" and "Po' boy blues" / Langston Hughes ; "Inglan is a bitch" / Linton Kwesi Johnson ; "Wukhand" / Paul Keens-Douglas ; "Tommy" / Rudyard Kipling ; "Unrelated incidents

no. 3" / Tom Leonard ; "Comin back ower the border" / Mary McCabe ; "Quashie to Buccra" / Claude McKay ; "Dis poem" / Mutabaruka ; "Questions! Questions!" / M. NourbeSe Philip ; "no more love poems # 1" / Ntozake Shange

"So like I say ... " : vernacular short stories: "Po' Sandy" / Charles Chestnutt ; "The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao" / Junot Diaz ; "Letters from Whetu" / Patricia Grace ; "Spunk" and "Story in Harlem slang" / Zora Neale Hurston ; "Betel nut is bad magic for airplanes" / John Kasaipwalova ; "Joebell and America" / Earl Lovelace ; "The ghost of Firozsha Baag" / Rohinton Mistry ; "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County" and "A True story, repeated word for word as I heard it" / Mark Twain ; "A soft touch" and "Granny's old junk" / Irvine Welsh ; "Only the dead know Brooklyn" / Thomas Wolfe

"I wanna say I am somebody" : selections from vernacular novels: from True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey ; from The snapper / Roddy Doyle ; from Once there were warriors / Alan Duff ; An overture to the commencement of a very rigid journey" from Everything is illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer ; from Beasts of no nation / Uzodinma Iweala ; Baywatch and de preacher" from Tide running / Oonya Kempadoo ; "Face" from Rolling the R's / R. Zamora Linmark ; from Londonstani / Gautam Malkani ; from No mate for the magpie / Frances Molloy ; from Push / Sapphire ; from Sozaboy : a novel in rotten English / Ken Saro-Wiwa ; from The housing lark / Sam Selvon

"A new English" : essays on vernacular literature: from "The African writer and the English language" / Chinua Achebe ; "How to tame a wild tongue" from Borderlands/la frontera : the new mestiza / Gloria Anzaldua ; "If Black English isn't a language, then tell me what is?" / James Baldwin ; from History of the voice : the development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry / Kamau Brathwaite ; from "Minute on Indian education" / Thomas Macaulay

"African speech ... English words" / Gabriel Okara

"The absence of writing or How I almost became a spy" / M. NourbeSe Philip

"Mother tongue" / Amy Tan..