Ese idioma: Alejo Carpentier's tongue-ties.(Critical essay)

From: Symposium | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT: The well-publicized discovery that Alejo Carpentier was born in Europe and that he may not have reached Cuba or learned Spanish until he was well into his childhood opens a new avenue of analysis into his work. Carpentier's exuberant prose reveals a deep-seated anxiety about his relations with the Spanish language, a tense tongue-tie that shapes his literary performances.

Keywords: bilingualism, Alejo Carpentier, diglossia, extraterritoriality, fiction, heterolingualism, mother tongue, Spanish American

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