At a time when English has acquired...

At a time when English has acquired the status of a global language, literature in English is increasingly being written not at home of experiences of non-Anglophone cultural worlds, as acclaimed novelists as diverse as Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, and Ahdaf Soueif attest. (1) Anglophone writers whose memoirs explore experiences of immersion in other languages and agricultures are interesting because of the ambiguous position they have possession of in this context. They are in common sense representatives or carriers of the dominant language and agriculture of contemporary experience. however in another sense they can