Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory

In our globalized world, a unique type of intercultural encounter has emerged: that between the speaking body and the foreign language. From Vladimir Nabokov and Maxine Hong Kingston to Yoko Tawada, writers have vividly captured the tensions and possibilities of this encounter-where tongues are "e;murderous"e; and words become feasts. Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory offers an analys...