Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

by Gustavo Perez Firmat

"Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater." So writes Gustavo P rez 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 emigr Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403962898
• ISBN13: 9781403962898
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"