Bilingual Games

DORIS SOMMER is Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University and the author of Proceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas, (Harvard 99); Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America, (California 91) and One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels (op 1984). She edited The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, (Duke 99) and co-edited Nationalisms and Sexualities, (Routledge 91).

• Introduction; D.Sommer Choices? What is the Ontological Status of Bilingualism?; M.Holquist Is Monolingualism Possible?; E.Bernádez José Can You See?: Latina Responses to Racist Discourse; A.C.Zentella Places New York, Diaspora City: Latinos Between and Beyond; J.Flores Montreal: A City in Translation; S.Simon Introduction to Tetraglosia: The Situation of Maghrebi Writers; R.Bensmaia Bilinguism, Quecha Poetry and Post-Modern Subjectivity; J.A.Mazzotti The Transamerican Trail to 'Cerca del Cielo': John Sayles and the Aesthetics of Multilingual Cinema; J.Miller Genders Doña Marina and Captain Malinche; M.Glantz Bilingual Blues, Bilingual Bliss: El Caso Casey; G.Pérez-Frimat The Mother Tongue; B.Trigo Cuban Lexicon for Bargaining Bilinguals in Daina Chaviano's: El Hombre, La Hembra y el Hambre; E.Whitfield Doubled-Barreled Canon Pidginizing Chinese; Y.Huang Found in Translation: Reflections of Bilingual American; J.Marzán The Language of Mixture; J.Ortega Kafka'sLanguages; D.Suchoff Igor Guberman: An Exile's Art of Punning; G.Slobin Bilingual Scenes; S.Molloy Notes Index