White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language by Boutaghou, Maya
White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language by Boutaghou, Maya

White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language

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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language by Boutaghou, Maya

White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language

$109.59
White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language by Boutaghou, Maya

White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language

$109.59
Author: Maya Boutaghou
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts

What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman writer, to colonial and postcolonial cultures in which European language has become so thoroughly ingrained? Examining women writers from India (Toru Dutt), Egypt (Mayy Ziyadah), Algeria (Assia Djebar), and Mauritius (Ananda Devi), White Tongue, Brown Skin sheds light on the essential double nature of the colonial experience.

Maya Boutaghou's latest book--her first in English--treats colonialism as analogous to a disease, manifesting itself in symptoms of multilingualism and cultural pluralism. Boutaghou shows how violently imposed multilingualism engenders in the mind of the colonized subject a state of permanent self-translation between two or more languages with unequal political and emotional power. They must endure a plural perception of the self, defined by the restless movement of self-translation, which becomes reflected in a literary dynamic frequently overlooked or misunderstood by previous scholarship.

Although the object is philosophical, this book is also deeply rooted in history. Understanding postcolonialism from below, as Boutaghou demonstrates, starts with an approach based on close readings in specific historical contexts.

Author: Maya Boutaghou
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 11/15/2024
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780813952215

About the Author
Maya Boutaghou is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia and the author of two books in French and coeditor of two anthologies, including Cultural Dynamics, the Minor in Question (2020).
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