Whose English? Attitudes to the world's lingua franca in recent non-native writing

This article examines the phenomenon of writing in English from the outer, and increasingly also the expanding, circles made familiar by Kachru's model of distribution and use of English in the world. In particular it looks at the way in which a number of post-millennium novelists use the language, and the attitudes towards the use of English that they reveal, both explicitly and implicitly, through the words, oipinions, and behaviours of their protagonists.