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Tongue Ties

Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Gustavo Pérez Firmat
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 1-21

  3. Saying Un-English Things in English

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 23-43

  4. Love in a Foreign Language

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 45-67

  5. Spanish-Only Body Talk

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 69-86

  6. Mother’s Idiom, Father’s Tongue

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 87-106

  7. Remembering Things Past in Translation

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 107-122

  8. Spanish Passion, English Peace

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 123-138

  9. Words That Smell Like Home

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 139-157

  10. Epilogue

    • Gustavo Pérez Firmat
    Pages 159-163

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 165-195
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'Before it becomes a political, social, or even linguistic issue, bilingualism is a private affair, intimate theater'. So writes 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 emigré Spanish poet Pedro Salinas, Spanish American novelists Guillermo Cabrera Infante and María Luisa Bombal, and Latino memoirists Richard Rodriguez and Sandra Cisneros, Firmat argues that their careers are shaped by a linguistic family romance that involves negotiating between the competing claims and attractions of Spanish and English.

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' Gustavo Perez Firmat is the most original, innovative, and scandalous critics of Spanish-langauge literature writing today. His wit is his method.' - Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University, USA

About the author

GUSTAVO PEREZ FIRMAT is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming of Age in America (Anchor, 1996) and editor of Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Duke University Press, 1990).

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