Kill Your Darlings

Article published by School of Languages and Linguistics PhD candidate Ruth McHugh-Dillon

"English" doesn't quite mean what it used to. In this essay for Melbourne-based literary journal, Kill Your Darlings, School of Languages and Linguistics PhD candidate Ruth McHugh-Dillon studies the weird and wonderful transformations occurring in the literary language of two fiction writers: Dominican-American Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz and Australian writer Omar Musa.

Read the Weirding English: The New Scripture of the Suburbs in Omar Musa's Here Come the Dogs article.