Tongue Ties Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages at Columbia University. He is the author of
Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age in America
(Anchor, 1996) and editor of
Do the Americas Have a Common Literature?
(Duke University Press, 1990).

Zusammenfassung

'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

Zusatztext

' Gustavo Perez Firmat is the most original, innovative, and scandalous critics of Spanish-langauge literature writing today. His wit is his method.' - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University, USA

Bericht

' Gustavo Perez Firmat is the most original, innovative, and scandalous critics of Spanish-langauge literature writing today. His wit is his method.' - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University, USA

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gustavo Perez Firmat, Gustavo Pa(c)Rez Firmat, Gustavo P. Rez Firmat, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, G. Firmat, G Firmat
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2003
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha
• EAN: 9781403962898
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6289-8
• Anzahl Seiten: 195
• Illustration: XI, 195 p.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.5 x 23.5 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 248 g
• Serie: New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri; New Directions in Latino American Cultures (Paperback); New Directions in Latino American Cultures; New Directions in Latino Ameri
• Themen: Literaturtheorie, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Kulturwissenschaften, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino