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Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education »
Authors: Doris Sommer, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (Editor), Jane Kramer (Editor), Benjamin Lee (Editor), Michael Warner
ISBN-13: 9780822333326, ISBN-10: 0822333325
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Doris Sommer
Doris Sommer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. Among her books are Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas; Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America; Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations; and The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, published by Duke University Press.
Book Synopsis
An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity.
Table of Contents
| Thanks | ||
| Invitation | ||
| 1 | Choose and lose | 3 |
| 2 | Aesthetics is a joke | 29 |
| 3 | Irritate the state | 71 |
| 4 | The common sense sublime | 115 |
| 5 | Let's play games | 157 |
| Notes | 193 | |
| Index of proper names | 251 |
Subjects
Education & Teaching
Bilingual Education Education, Bilingual -> Social aspects
Nonfiction Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical Study
Nonfiction All Nonfiction Education - General & Miscellaneous
Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical Study Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art
Bilingual Education Education, Bilingual -> Social aspectsNonfiction
Philosophy Major Branches of Philosophical StudyNonfiction
All Nonfiction Education - General & MiscellaneousPhilosophy
Major Branches of Philosophical Study Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art