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(ENEM 2018 1ª APLICAÇÃO) 

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:

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