Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1403960119 ISBN 13: 9781403960115

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Riassunto

These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernism—multiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally live—that is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laugh—in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship (aesthetics; language and philosophy; psychoanalysis, and politics) cannot see or hear more than one language at a time. The goal of these essays is to create a new field: bilingual arts & aesthetics which examine the aesthetic product produced by bilingual diasporic communities. The focus of this volume is the Americas, but examples and theoretical proposals come from Europe as well. In both areas, the issue offers another level of complexity to the migrant and cosmopolitan character of local societies in a global economy.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Doris Sommer is Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University, and is author of Foundational Fictions:The National Romances of Latin America and Proceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas.

Contenuti:

Introduction; D.Sommer
Choices?
What is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism?; M.Holquist
Is Monolingualism Possible?; E.Bernádez
José Can You See?: Latina Responses to Racist Discourse; A.C.Zentella
Places
New York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond; J.Flores
Montreal: A City in Translation; S.Simon
Introduction to Tetraglosia: The Situation of Maghrebi Writers; R.Bensmaia
Bilinguism, Quecha Poetry and Post-Modern Subjectivity; J.A.Mazzotti
The Transamerican Trail to 'Cerca del Cielo': John Sayles and the Aesthetics of Multilingual Cinema; J.Miller
Genders
Doña Marina and Captain Malinche; M.Glantz
Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss: El Caso Casey; G.Pérez-Frimat
The Mother Tongue; B.Trigo
Cuban Lexicon for Bargaining Bilinguals in Daina Chaviano's: El Hombre, La Hembra y el Hambre; E.Whitfield
Doubled-Barreled Canon
Pidginizing Chinese; Y.Huang
Found in Translation: Reflections of Bilingual American; J.Marzán
The Language of Mixture; J.Ortega
Kafka'sLanguages; D.Suchoff
Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning; G.Slobin
Bilingual Scenes; S.Molloy
Notes
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403960119
• ISBN 13: 9781403960115
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Sommer Doris