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Book SynopsisAs our millennium draws to a close, we find ourselves in the midst of great and rapid global changes with nations and political systems dissolving all around us and the world becoming one of shifting identities--of peoples unified and divided by such distinctions as nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, and colonial status. The articulation and construction of these distinctions, the very language of difference, is the subject of An Other Tongue. This collection of essays by a group of distinguished scholars, including Norma Alarcón, Gayatri Spivak, Tzvetan Todorov, and Gerald Vizenor, explores the interconnections between language and identity. The Chicanos, the U.S./Mexico borderland polyglots whose sense of history, nationality, and race is as mixed as their language, are the book's prime example. But the authors recognize that border zones, like diasporas and post-colonial relations, occur globally, and their discussion of hybrid or mestizo identities ranges from the United Sta
Trade Review"The essays in this volume are well-written, powerfully argued, and provocative critical introductions to issues such as nation and national languages and heteroglossia and interlingualism. With its focus on multilingualism in the U. S., the Caribbean, India, and Ireland, the volume is essential reading for those interested in the remapping of World Literature."—José David Saldívar, University of California, Santa Cruz
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Here, the Now / Alfred Artega 1
An Other Tongue / Alfred Artega 9
Colonialism and the Politics of Translation / Tejaswini Niranjana 35
Adulteration and the Nation: Monologic Nationalism and the Colonial Hybrid / David Lloyd 53
Seeing with Another I: Our Search for Other Worlds / Eugene C. Eoyang 93
Cut Throat Sun / Jean-Luc Nancy 113
Conjugating Subjects: The Heteroglossia of Essence and Resistance / Norma Alarcon 125
The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance / Gerald Vizenor 139
A Rhetoric of Obliquity in African and Caribbean Women Writers / Michael G. Cooke 169
Differance and the Discourse of "Community" in Writings by and about the Ethnic Other(s) / Cordelia Chavez Candelaria 185
Dialogism and Schizophrenia / Tzvetan Todorov 203
Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Reading of Lorna Dee Cervantes's Poetry / Ada Savin 215
Dialogical Strategies, Monological Goals: Chicano Literature / Bruce-Novoa 225
Bilingualism as Satire in Nineteenth-Century Chicano Poetry / Luis A. Torres 247
Nacer en Espagnol / Edmundo Desnoes 263
Bonding in Difference / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 273
Contributors 287
Index 291
