A riveting series of stories that portray the biopolitics of speaking and writing in a postcolonial world.

Note on Non-English Sources
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Skin Tones—About Language, Postcoloniality, and Racialization
1. Derrida's Legacy of the Monolingual
2. Not Like a Native Speaker: The Postcolonial Scene of Languaging and the Proximity of the Xenophone
3. Translator, Traitor; Translator, Mourner (or, Dreaming of Intercultural Equivalence)
4. Thinking with Food, Writing off Center: The Postcolonial Work of Leung Ping-kwan and Ma Kwok-ming
5. The Sounds and Scripts of a Hong Kong Childhood
Notes
Index

Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University and the author of numerous influential books, including several published by Columbia University Press: Primitive Passions; The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films. A book about her writings, The Rey Chow Reader, was edited by Paul Bowman. Her work has appeared in more than ten languages.