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- catalog abstract "A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons betweenEnglish and Chinese.".
- catalog contributor b13238005.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons betweenEnglish and Chinese.".
- catalog description "The way back / Bharati Mukherjee -- Yes and no / Amy Tan -- Trouble with language / Josef Škvorecký -- Circus biped / Bert Keizer -- French without tears / Luc Sante -- Prelude / Thomas Laqueur -- Recovering the original / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Split self / Nicholas Papandreou -- Limpid blue, poppy / M.J. Fitzgerald -- Personal singular / Ha-yun Jung -- On being an orphaned writer / Louis Begley -- The mother tongue between two slices of rye / Gary Shteyngart -- Boswell and Mrs. Miller / James Campbell -- Footnotes to a double life / Ariel Dorfman -- My Yiddish / Leonard Michaels.".
- catalog extent "viii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Genius of language.".
- catalog identifier "0375422382 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Genius of language.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books".
- catalog relation "Genius of language.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "820.9 22".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authors, Exiled Language.".
- catalog subject "Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Bilingualism United States.".
- catalog subject "English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers.".
- catalog subject "English language Style.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States Language.".
- catalog subject "Language and languages.".
- catalog subject "PE1421 .G46 2004".
- catalog subject "Second language acquisition.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The way back / Bharati Mukherjee -- Yes and no / Amy Tan -- Trouble with language / Josef Škvorecký -- Circus biped / Bert Keizer -- French without tears / Luc Sante -- Prelude / Thomas Laqueur -- Recovering the original / Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Split self / Nicholas Papandreou -- Limpid blue, poppy / M.J. Fitzgerald -- Personal singular / Ha-yun Jung -- On being an orphaned writer / Louis Begley -- The mother tongue between two slices of rye / Gary Shteyngart -- Boswell and Mrs. Miller / James Campbell -- Footnotes to a double life / Ariel Dorfman -- My Yiddish / Leonard Michaels.".
- catalog title "The genius of language : fifteen writers reflect on their mother tongues / edited and with an introduction by Wendy Lesser.".
- catalog type "text".