List of Tables and Figures I: O N C OMMUNITY Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN Community and the Common ROBERT JC YOUNG II: C OMMUNICATION AND THE S PEECH C OMMUNITY The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective STEPHANIE HACKERT Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century DARIA DAYTER Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN & ANNE SCHRÖDER Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community ANDREA MOLL 'Africa is not a Game': Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online ERIC A. ANCHIMBE The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How? DAGMAR DEUBER III: N ARRATING A CROSS T HE NATION Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India TOBIAS DÖRING Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy's Soucouyant  KATJA SARKOWSKY Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South Africa JOCHEN PETZOLD Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara's Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence  STEPHAN LAQUÉ A 'furry subjunctive case' of Empathy: Human-Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism ROMAN BARTOSCH Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville's Short Story Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water SUSAN ARNDT IV: L ANGUAGE ,S TYLE, AND B ELONGING I NMUSIC C ULTURES Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón BRITTA SCHNEIDER Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda JUDE SSEMPUUMA V: C OUNTER -A RGUMENT Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation CAROLYN COOPER At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper's Keynote Lecture Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation CAROLINE KOEGLER Notes on Contributors Index sakriti opis