Enunciado

Don’t write in English, they said,
English is not your mother tongue…
…The language I speak
Becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness
All mine, mine alone, it is half English, half
Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest,
It is as human as I am human…
…It voices my joys, my longings my
Hopes…
(Kamala Das, 1965:10)

GARGESH, R. South Asian Englishes. In: KACHRU, B. B.; KACHRU, Y.; NELSON, C. L.
(Eds.). The Handbook of World Englishes. Singapore: Blackwell, 2006.

A poetisa Kamala Das, como muitos escritores indianos, escreve suas obras em inglês, apesar de essa não ser sua primeira língua. Nesses versos, ela