Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education by Sommer, Doris
Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education by Sommer, Doris

Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education

Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through...
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Author: Doris Sommer
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Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education by Sommer, Doris

Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education

$502.64
Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education by Sommer, Doris

Bilingual Aesthetics: A New Sentimental Education

$502.64
Author: Doris Sommer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today's global world has outgrown any one-to-one correlation between a people and a language; liberal democracies can either encourage difference or stifle it through exclusionary policies. Bilingual Aesthetics is Sommer's passionate call for citizens and officials to cultivate difference and to realize that the precarious points of contact resulting from mismatches between languages, codes, and cultures are the lifeblood of democracy, as well as the stimulus for aesthetics and philosophy.

Sommer encourages readers to entertain the creative possibilities inherent in multilingualism. With her characteristic wit and love of language, she focuses on humor-particularly bilingual jokes-as the place where tensions between and within cultures are played out. She draws on thinking about humor and language by a range of philosophers and others, including Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakhtin. In declaring the merits of allowing for crossed signals, Sommer sends a clear message: Making room for more than one language is about value added, not about remediation. It is an expression of love for a contingent and changing world.



Author: Doris Sommer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/07/2004
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.40w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780822333449


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2004 pg. 478

About the Author

Doris Sommer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish at Harvard University. Among her books are Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas; Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America; Bilingual Games: Some Literary Investigations; and The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, published by Duke University Press.


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