Approaches to World Englishes Literature

Abstract

This paper presents a review of salient frameworks projected to analyse and interpret World Englishes literature. It is obvious that the Kachruvian framework initially theorises literary and linguistic creativity in a so-called ‘contact literature'. This results in the emergence of various paradigms and concepts regarding the literary perspective of Englishes proposed by other leading scholars. Overall, a description of such frameworks contributes to the construction of distinct approaches to World Englishes literature.