Bilingual Games Some Literary Investigations

These essays bring home the most challenging observations of postmodernismmultiple identities, the fragility of meaning, the risks of communication. Sommer asserts that many people normally livethat is, think, feel, create, reason, persuade, laughin 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 these essays is to create a new field: bilingual arts & aesthetics which examine the aesthetic product produced by bilingual diasporic communities. The focus of this volume is the Americas, but examples and theoretical proposals come from Europe as well. In both areas, the issue offers another level of complexity to the migrant and cosmopolitan character of local societies in a global economy.Sommer, Doris is the author of 'Bilingual Games Some Literary Investigations', published 2003 under ISBN 9781403960115 and ISBN 1403960119.