Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations

by Doris Sommer

Book Overview

These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernism--multiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally live--that is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laugh--in more than one language. She claims that traditional scholarship (aesthetics; language and philosophy; psychoanalysis, and politics) cannot see or hear more than one language at a time. The goal of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960127
• ISBN13: 9781403960122
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"