![]() ![]() In your cultural rhythm and rhyme, that’s where the soul keep time. Why anybody wanna speak the truth, raise they children, know themselves with gas chamber language? Survival be havin’ words to call home, havin’ idioms and syntax to heal the Diaspora. Ethnic throwbacks be like the ole Israelis bringin’ back Hebrew after two thousand years, after so many words was fightin’ against ’em. I take a deep breath, work calm in my center, like Ray Valero do to act. Andrea Hairston brings up a similar point in her 2006 debut novel Mindscape and does so in one sharply written paragraph–one amongst many.Īll the thugs is laughin’ at me, but I don’t go off. ![]() That point being the attempt of a group of women Linguists to create their own language, a necessary thing given their oppression. ![]() In my last WOGF reading challenge review, I remarked on how one of the main points of Native Tongue gets bogged down amidst all the other plot threads Suzette Haden Elgin tries to bring together. ![]()
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