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How should Latino writers in the United States retain specific cultural identities that may be different from - even contrary to - the hegemonic culture? The answer to this question varies. This book discusses how Caribbean writers Roberto G. Fernández and Tato Laviera both attempt to answer it in wildly creative ways, involving linguistic strategies and tactics, derived from some of the oldest Spanish literary traditions. These authors' «games» show how Janus speaks with his forked tongue - in a monolingual space, toward a rhetoric of bilingualism.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Janus Identities and Forked Tongues
• Subtitle: Two Caribbean Writers in the United States
• Author: Rosanna Rivero Marin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 153
• EAN: 9780820467368
• ISBN: 9780820467368
• ID: 10023872
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Weight: 350 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 235 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. December 2003

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