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This study is unique in that it blends insights from post-colonial literary theory, sociolinguistics, and the social psychology of language use to compare the nature, function, and meaning of English in the delineation of cultural and social identities in anglophone Zimbabwean and Trinbagonian literatures. These identities are communicated through certain nativization strategies and the power and politics of English. The study emphasizes that the variations in the linguistic practices of Zimbabwean and Trinbagonian (and, indeed, other post-colonial) writers cumulatively establish different meanings (identities/subjectivities) from those of the users of the hegemonic or putative standard English linguistic code.

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Edmund Olushina Bamiro makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the forms, functions, and identities of world Englishes in the contexts of Zimbabwe and Trinidad and Tobago. The theoretical conceptualization and empirical data make this study an invaluable scholarly resource for research and teaching. Bamiro deserves our gratitude for this impressive research. (Braj B. Kachru, Director and Professor of Linguistics, Center for Advanced Study and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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The Author: Edmund Olushina Bamiro is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. He holds Ph.D. degrees in both linguistics and literature. He has published extensively on research at the interface of linguistics and literature and African and Caribbean varieties of English.

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