As our millennium draws to a close, we find ourselves in the midst
of great and rapid global changes with nations and political
systems dissolving all around us and the world becoming one of
shifting identities--of peoples unified and divided by such
distinctions as nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, and
colonial status. The articulation and construction of these
distinctions, the very language of difference, is the subject of An
Other Tongue. This collection of essays by a group of distinguished
scholars, including Norma Alarcon, Gayatri Spivak, Tzvetan Todorov,
and Gerald Vizenor, explores the interconnections between language
and identity.
The Chicanos, the U.S./Mexico borderland polyglots whose sense of
history, nationality, and race is as mixed as their language, are
the book's prime example. But the authors recognize that border
zones, like diasporas and post-colonial relations, occur globally,
and their discussion of hybrid or mestizo identities ranges from
the United States to the Caribbean to South Asia to Ireland.
Drawing on personal experience, readings of poetry and fiction, and
cultural theory, the authors detail the politics of being human
through the mediation of language. What does shadow mean to the
Native American Indian, or diaspora to the East Indian immigrant?
How does British colonialism yet affect Irish and Indian
nationalist literary production? Why is the split between Eastern
and Western European language use necessarily schizophrenic? So
much of our sense of difference today is constructed as we speak,
and An Other Tongue speaks with eloquence to this phenomenon and
will be of great interest to those concerned with the discourse of
post-colonial studies, critical theory, and the remapping of world
literature.Contributors. Norma Alarcon, Alfred Arteaga, Juan
Bruce-Novoa, Cordelia Chavez Candelaria, Michael G. Cooke, Edmundo
Desnoes, Eugene C. Eoyang, David Lloyd, Lydie Moudileno, Jean-Luc
Nancy, Tejaswini Niranjana, Ada Savin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Michael Smith, Tzvetan Todorov, Luis A. Torres, Gerald
Vizenor
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