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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sommer, Doris, 1947- Bilingual aesthetics. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)681437243 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Doris Sommer |
| ISBN: | 0822333325 9780822333326 0822333449 9780822333449 |
| OCLC Number: | 53289888 |
| Description: | xxv, 254 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Choose and lose -- 2. Aesthetics is a joke -- 3. Irritate the state -- 4. The common sense sublime -- 5. Let's play games. |
| Series Title: | Public planet books. |
| Responsibility: | Doris Sommer. |
| More information: | |
| Local System Bib Number: | 422782 |
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Publisher Synopsis
"Doris Sommer's book is the most thorough exploration of the possibilities that bilingualism opens to public life in contemporary societies. Written in a rigorous way, it is also punctuated by witticisms, insightful historical and sociological comments, and a cultural richness which makes its reading both pleasurable and eye-opening. It is a major contribution to an insufficiently explored field in contemporary scholarship."--Ernesto Laclau, State University of New York, Buffalo "This is a tour de force, a brilliantly conceived and executed performance of scholarly seduction."--Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas Read more...