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Monolingualism of the Other Or The Prosthesis of Origin

Release on 1998 | by Jacques Derrida

" This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of the distinguished author's own relationship to the French language.

Author: Jacques Derrida
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804732892
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 93
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Monolingualism of the Other Or The Prosthesis of Origin

" I have but one language?yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of the distinguished author's own relationship to the French language. Its argument touches on several issues relevant to the current debates on multiculturalism.

Language: en
Pages: 93

Monolingualism of the Other, Or, The Prosthesis of Origin

Authors: Jacques Derrida

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

Language: en
Pages: 340

The Uncanny

Authors: Nicholas Royle

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's essay of 1919, "The uncanny,"

Language: en
Pages: 460

Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World

Authors: Hafid Gafa ti, Patricia M. E. Lorcin, David G. Troyansky

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France

Language: en
Pages: 192

Not Like a Native Speaker

Authors: Rey Chow

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-23 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's

Language: en
Pages: 233

Thought-images

Authors: Gerhard Richter

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

In this book, Gerhard Richter explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the Denkbild, or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. The