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Bilingual Games
Doris Sommer
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Paperback. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFF; CFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403960122
SKU
V9781403960122
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Ref
99-15
About Doris Sommer
DORIS SOMMER is Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University and the author of Proceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas, (Harvard 99); Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America, (California 91) and One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels (op 1984). She edited The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited ... Read more
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