Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349527175)

Vendor: G. Firmat
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Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

$54.99

Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes Firmat in this ground-breaking study of the interweaving of life and languages in a group of bilingual Spanish, Spanish-American and Latino writers. Unravelling the 'tongue ties' of such diverse figures as the American philosopher George Santayana, the emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

Author: G. Firmat
ISBN-10: 1349527173
ISBN-13: 9781349527175
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2003
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
By G. Firmat
By G. Firmat
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GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age in America (Anchor, 1996) and editor of Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Duke University Press, 1990).

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