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The chapter headings offer succinet clues to Bailey's approach: English Discerned; Emergent English; English Abroad; World English; English Transplanted; Postcolonial English; English Improved; Imaginary English; English Imperiled; and Proper English.
What we end up with is a sharp postcolonial critique not just of one writer but of novel-writing as a whole.
Hence ebonics was seen by the American public at large as a declaration of independence in need of quashing, an internal threat, a wild mistake, while American English, itself a partly revolutionary, postcolonial product, is seen as simply "the way things are" (that is, unless you're Prince Charles).
The Nation hailed his inauguration as a victory for the left, a sentiment not shared by some inside the academy, who have noted Said's increasingly critical views about the radical postcolonial scholars who have followed in his footsteps.
Furthermore, living as we do in a (largely) postcolonial world, we tend to recognize that each national variety of English, that of the United States, of Canada, of Australia, of India, of Nigeria, of Ireland, has its own local standards, and we (that is, linguists) have begun talking about world Englishes, not simply world English, to emphasize this fact.