Name: White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language (en Inglés)
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Author: Maya Boutaghou
ISBN: 9780813952208

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White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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University Of Virginia Press

Autor

Maya Boutaghou

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

234

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780813952208

White Tongue, Brown Skin: The Colonized Woman and Language (en Inglés)

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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.