Language as Hope

by Jerry Won Lee and Daniel N. Silva

Although it feels like we live in a time of seeming hopelessness, this pioneering book illustrates what language can teach us about the practice, logic, and feasibility of hope in the twenty-first century. Silva and Lee highlight how people living in Brazilian urban peripheries, who have grown accustomed to unrelenting prejudice and violence on an everyday basis, use language to survive and imagine futures that are worth aspiring to. In so doing,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009306529
• ISBN13: 9781009306522
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"