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Bilingual Games

Some Literary Investigations

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Doris Sommer
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Doris Sommer
      Pages 1-18

  3. Choices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. What Is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism?

      • Michael Holquist
      Pages 21-34

    3. Is Monolingualism Possible?

      • Enrique Bernárdez
      Pages 35-49

    4. “José, can you see?”

      • Ana Celia Zentella
      Pages 51-66

  4. Places

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Nueva York, Diaspora City

      • Juan Flores
      Pages 69-76

    3. Crossing Town

      • Sherry Simon
      Pages 77-86

    4. Introduction to Tetraglossia

      • Réda Bensmaïa
      Pages 87-96

    5. Bilingualism, Quechua Poetry, and Migratory Fragmentations in Present-day Peru

      • José Antonio Mazzotti
      Pages 97-119

    6. The Transamerican Trail to Cerca del Cielo

      • Joshua L. Miller
      Pages 121-145

  5. Genders

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Doña Marina and Captain Malinche

      • Margo Glantz
      Pages 149-161

    3. Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss

      • Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
      Pages 163-176

    4. The Mother Tongue

      • Benigno Trigo
      Pages 177-191

    5. The Novel as Cuban Lexicon

      • Esther Whitfield
      Pages 193-201

  6. Double-Barreled Canon

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Pidginizing Chinese

      • Yunte Huang
      Pages 205-220

    3. Found in Translation

      • Julio Marzán
      Pages 221-234
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About this book

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.

About the authors

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 in Latin America, (Duke 99) and co-edited Nationalisms and Sexualities, (Routledge 91).

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