Bilingual Games
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:...
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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
