Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations

by Doris Sommer

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403960127

ISBN13:9781403960122

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:308 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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Language Arts Minority Studies Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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