Bilingual Games

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Author: Doris Sommer

ISBN-10: 1403960119

ISBN-13: 9781403960115

Category: General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism

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Sommer invites distinguished writers to examine the fundamental difference it makes to play games between languages.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pt. 1Choices?1What Is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism?212Is Monolingualism Possible?353"Jose, can you see?": Latin@ Responses to Racist Discourse51Pt. 2Some Places4Nueva York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond695Crossing Town: Montreal in Translation776Introduction to Tetraglossia: The Situation of Maghrebi Writers877Bilingualism, Quechua Poetry, and Migratory Fragmentations in Present-day Peru978The Transamerican Trail to Cerca del Cielo: John Sayles and the Aesthetics of Multilingual Cinema121Pt. 3Genders9Dona Marina and Captain Malinche14910Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss: El caso Casey16311The Mother Tongue17712The Novel as Cuban Lexicon: Bargaining Bilinguals in Daina Chaviano's El hombre, la hembra y el hambre193Pt. 4Double-Barreled Canon13Pidginizing Chinese20514Found in Translation: Reflections of Bilingual American22115Mixture's Speech23516Kafka's Canon: Hebrew and Yiddish in The Trial and Amerika25117Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning275Pt. 4Living Investigations18Bilingual Scenes289Index297