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Author: Alette Olin Hill Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253203892 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 198
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"Alette Hill's unusually insightful and captivating style, combined with her breadth of interdisciplinary detail, make this an extraordinary book." --Wendy Martyna "An insightful look at the changes taking place in this society, and its reflection in our language." --Come-All-Ye Does a women's language--a different mother tongue--exist? With wit and a keen critical sense, Alette Hill shows how the language we speak simultaneously reflects social change as it helps create it for the future.
Author: Alette Olin Hill Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253203892 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 198
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"Alette Hill's unusually insightful and captivating style, combined with her breadth of interdisciplinary detail, make this an extraordinary book." --Wendy Martyna "An insightful look at the changes taking place in this society, and its reflection in our language." --Come-All-Ye Does a women's language--a different mother tongue--exist? With wit and a keen critical sense, Alette Hill shows how the language we speak simultaneously reflects social change as it helps create it for the future.
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802165664 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 361
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“Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers.” —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World “I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind,” writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind—strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for exhilarating reading. “If you are tired of being able to predict what a writer will say next, if you are bored stiff with minimalism, if you want excess and risk and intelligence and pure orneriness, try Le Guin.” —Mary Mackey, San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Antonio Castore Publisher: Series Cultural Inquiry ISBN: 3965580493 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 262
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Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of 'mother tongue', rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.
Author: Sulaiman Addonia Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1644451298 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.
Author: Eowyn Crisfield Publisher: Multilingual Matters ISBN: 1788929357 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 116
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Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren’t sure where to start – or how to keep going? Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual Families is a guide for you and your family. It combines academic research with practical advice to cover the essential elements in successful bilingual and multilingual development. Use this book to: Learn about language goals – and how to set them Create a 'living' family language plan that develops and grows with your family Learn how to talk about multilingualism with your children and other key people in your children's life, like teachers and relatives Recognise when you might need further support An indispensable guide for your family’s language journey.
Author: Amy Tan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780143038092 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.
Author: Robyn Longhurst Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134237472 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 204
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Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the, most important of all bodies - bodies that conceive, give birth and nurture other bodies. It is time that feminist, social, and cultural geographers contributed more to debates about maternal bodies. This book offers a series of windows on the ways in which maternal bodies influence, and are influenced by, social and spatial processes. Topics covered include women ‘coming out’ as pregnant at work, changing fashion for pregnant women, being disabled and pregnant, the politics of home versus hospital birth, breastfeeding practices that sit outside the norm, women who are constructed as ‘bad’ mothers, and ‘e-mums’ (mothers who go on-line).
Author: Krista Ratcliffe Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 9780809319343 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 256
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Ratcliffe (English, Marquette U.) posits strategies for conceptualizing feminist theories of rhetoric from the writings of Woolf, Daly, and Rich. She situates their rhetorical theories within current discussion about feminist pedagogy, and reconsiders Roland Barthes' The Old Rhetoric in light of issues that emerge in daily life, such as who can talk, where one can talk, and how one can talk. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Robin Patric Clair Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791439418 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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A thought-provoking look at how silence is embedded in our language, society, and institutions. Sexual harassment is explored as an example.
Author: Alette Olin Hill
Author: Alette Olin Hill
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Author: Antonio Castore
Author: Sulaiman Addonia
Author: Eowyn Crisfield
Author: Amy Tan
Author: David Michael Kleinberg-Levin
Author: Robyn Longhurst
Author: Krista Ratcliffe
Author: Robin Patric Clair