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Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education(Public Planet Books)

Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education(Public Planet Books)


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An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity Draws on thinking about humour and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin Learning a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. Renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that this inevitable awkwardness should not just be tolerated - it should be embraced. Bilingualism, Sommer contends, is serious fun. In Bilingual Aesthetics she invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. As she says, today's global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language. Liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer's passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference, to realise that those precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy. Sommer draws on thinking about humour and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.



Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :

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.



Review :
"Doris Sommer's book is the most thorough exploration of the possibilities that bilingualism opens to public life in contemporary societies. Written in a rigorous way, it is also punctuated by witticisms, insightful historical and sociological comments, and a cultural richness which makes its reading both pleasurable and eye-opening. It is a major contribution to an insufficiently explored field in contemporary scholarship."--Ernesto Laclau, State University of New York, Buffalo "This is a tour de force, a brilliantly conceived and executed performance of scholarly seduction."--Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822333449
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Public Planet Books
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822333449
  • Publisher Date: 07 Apr 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Sub Title: A New Sentimental Education
  • Width: 137 mm


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