Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation

by Barbara Johnson

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Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal.

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Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674011872

ISBN13:9780674011878

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:204 Pages

Weight:1.13 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"

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