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Bilingual Games » (First Edition)
Authors: Doris Sommer (Editor), Doris Sommer
ISBN-13: 9781403960122, ISBN-10: 1403960127
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: First Edition
Author Biography: Doris Sommer
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.
Book Synopsis
Sommer invites distinguished writers to examine the fundamental difference it makes to play games between languages.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Choices? | |
| 1 | What Is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism? | 21 |
| 2 | Is Monolingualism Possible? | 35 |
| 3 | "Jose, can you see?": Latin@ Responses to Racist Discourse | 51 |
| Pt. 2 | Some Places | |
| 4 | Nueva York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond | 69 |
| 5 | Crossing Town: Montreal in Translation | 77 |
| 6 | Introduction to Tetraglossia: The Situation of Maghrebi Writers | 87 |
| 7 | Bilingualism, Quechua Poetry, and Migratory Fragmentations in Present-day Peru | 97 |
| 8 | The Transamerican Trail to Cerca del Cielo: John Sayles and the Aesthetics of Multilingual Cinema | 121 |
| Pt. 3 | Genders | |
| 9 | Dona Marina and Captain Malinche | 149 |
| 10 | Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss: El caso Casey | 163 |
| 11 | The Mother Tongue | 177 |
| 12 | The Novel as Cuban Lexicon: Bargaining Bilinguals in Daina Chaviano's El hombre, la hembra y el hambre | 193 |
| Pt. 4 | Double-Barreled Canon | |
| 13 | Pidginizing Chinese | 205 |
| 14 | Found in Translation: Reflections of Bilingual American | 221 |
| 15 | Mixture's Speech | 235 |
| 16 | Kafka's Canon: Hebrew and Yiddish in The Trial and Amerika | 251 |
| 17 | Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning | 275 |
| Pt. 4 | Living Investigations | |
| 18 | Bilingual Scenes | 289 |
| Index | 297 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Education & Teaching Bilingual Education Bilingualism and literature
Nonfiction All Nonfiction Education - General & Miscellaneous
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEducation & Teaching
Bilingual Education Bilingualism and literatureNonfiction
All Nonfiction Education - General & Miscellaneous
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