| Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Sommer, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403960127 ISBN-13: 9781403960122 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 306.446 |
| LCCN: 2002074848 |
| Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.36" W x 8.52" (0.79 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |