Bilingual Aesthetics - A New Sentimental Education

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship! ethnicity! and diversity. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship! ethnicity! and diversity Inhaltsverzeichnis Thanks vii Invitation xi 1 Choose and Lose >2 Aesthetics is a Joke 29 3 Irritate the State 71 4 The Common Sense Sublime 115 5 Let’s Play Games 157 Notes >Index of Proper Names 251

Product details

• Authors: Doris Sommer, Sommer, Doris Sommer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2004
• EAN: 9780822333326
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3332-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Public Planet; Public Planet Books; Public Planet Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy