Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language Volume 12

by Ayelet Tsabari, Leonarda Carranza, Eufemia Fantetti

Book Overview

In this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771667141
• ISBN13: 9781771667142
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"