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About this book
'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 emigrĂ© Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and MarĂa 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.
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Topic
LittératureTable of contents
- Cover
- TONGUE TIES
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Saying Un-English Things in English
- Chapter 2 Love in a Foreign Language
- Chapter 3 Spanish-Only Body Talk
- Chapter 4 Motherâs Idiom, Fatherâs Tongue
- Chapter 5 Remembering Things Past in Translation
- Chapter 6 Spanish Passion, English Peace
- Chapter 7 Words That Smell Like Home
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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