{"product_id":"an-other-tongue-9780822314622","title":"An Other Tongue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Here, the Now \/ Alfred Artega        1\u003cbr\u003e An Other Tongue \/ Alfred Artega        9\u003cbr\u003e Colonialism and the Politics of Translation \/ Tejaswini Niranjana        35\u003cbr\u003e Adulteration and the Nation: Monologic Nationalism and the Colonial Hybrid \/ David Lloyd        53\u003cbr\u003e Seeing with Another I: Our Search for Other Worlds \/ Eugene C. Eoyang        93\u003cbr\u003e Cut Throat Sun \/ Jean-Luc Nancy        113\u003cbr\u003e Conjugating Subjects: The Heteroglossia of Essence and Resistance \/ Norma Alarcon        125\u003cbr\u003e The Ruins of Representation: Shadow Survivance and the Literature of Dominance \/ Gerald Vizenor        139\u003cbr\u003e A Rhetoric of Obliquity in African and Caribbean Women Writers \/ Michael G. Cooke        169\u003cbr\u003e Differance and the Discourse of \"Community\" in Writings by and about the Ethnic Other(s) \/ Cordelia Chavez Candelaria        185\u003cbr\u003e Dialogism and Schizophrenia \/ Tzvetan Todorov        203\u003cbr\u003e Bilingualism and Dialogism: Another Reading of Lorna Dee Cervantes's Poetry \/ Ada Savin        215\u003cbr\u003e Dialogical Strategies, Monological Goals: Chicano Literature \/ Bruce-Novoa        225\u003cbr\u003e Bilingualism as Satire in Nineteenth-Century Chicano Poetry \/ Luis A. Torres        247\u003cbr\u003e Nacer en Espagnol \/ Edmundo Desnoes        263\u003cbr\u003e Bonding in Difference \/ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak        273\u003cbr\u003e Contributors        287\u003cbr\u003e Index        291","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406014456151,"sku":"9780822314622","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822314622.jpg?v=1730494246","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/an-other-tongue-9780822314622","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}