Sommer / Gaonkar / Kramer Bilingual Aesthetics

A New Sentimental Education
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8579-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Public planet books

An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sommer, Doris

Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar

Kramer, Jane

Lee, Benjamin

Warner, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Thanks vii

Invitation xi

1 Choose and Lose
3

2 Aesthetics is a Joke 29

3 Irritate the State 71

4 The Common Sense Sublime 115

5 Let’s Play Games 157

Notes
193

Index of Proper Names 251

Über Autor(innen)

Doris Sommer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. Among her books are Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas; Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America; Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations; and The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, published by Duke University Press.