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premise that language shapes worldview is attractive but much disputed, Audre Lorde famously said that one cannot use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house, which seems to be the foundation of this very angry book.
Other reviewers have noted the chracter traits seem to line up positively and negatively along gender lines, and I think Haden Elgin was conscious enough of trying to avoid that to introduce some underdeveloped outliers to offset that criticism.
That said, I thought the idea of women as so socially devalued was an example of reductio ad absurdum that commented obliquely on our current struggle for reproductive rights, wage equality, and legislative representation.
Haden Elgin was writing more than two decades ago, which makes her observations that much more damning.
I kept reading past my fatigue with the writer's cliches and the flawed central premise, that linguists had somehow become an almost genetically insular group of "Lines," because the book really engages with its ideas, and the ideas are provocative.
That said, I think the comparisons to Atwood are aspirational the latter's MadAddam trilogy addresses how language and gender interact while not parading a homogeneous cast and syntactic banality.
Estamos en el año, la supremacía del hombre es total, el movimiento de liberación de la mujer ha sido aplastado y las mujeres están desprovistas de ningún poder.
Se ha establecido contacto con otros mundos, y la tierra ha comenzado su colonización de las estrellas.
Las dinastías de los Lingüistas han aceptado la tarea de hablar con los alienígenas, y un poder inmenso ha caído en sus manos.
Esta novela trata de la guerra fría entre los sexos, y de la resistencia oculta de las mujeres que desarrollan el Láadan, un lenguaje secreto propio.
Suzette Haden Elgin, novelista de ciencia ficción y profesora de lingüística, combina sus talentos para crear una sociedad en la que el comercio interplanetario ha convertido el lenguaje en un bien precioso.
. . y por tanto ha dado al llamado sexo débil un arma para liberarse, . . si se atreven a usarlo,
Suzette Haden Elgin, que vive en Arkansas, es doctora en Lingüística y ha impartido clases en la Universidad de California en San Diego, especializándose en lenguajes indios americanos, especialmente el navajo, hopi y kumeyaay.
Novelista de ciencia ficción desde, ha publicado un total de nueve novelas de ciencia ficción y fantasía, así como numerosos textos lingüísticos.
Lengua Materna es su trabajo más reciente, También ha compilado un Primer Diccionario y Gramática del Láadan, I enjoyed it the first time I read it I've studied Linguistics myself, which made it interesting and I occasionally enjoy rereading.
But the rereads expose more and more holes in the plot that get more and more irritating.
How on earth did the US constitution get amended at a time when women still had the vote And why does a change to the US constitution apparently affect the whole world
Why do Linguists live so austerely as a public relations measure when they can see for themselves that it doesn't work
If there's nobody on Earth who can speak Alien Language X, how do the Linguists persuade an alien who speaks it to come and live in their Interface and teach it to a human baby What does the wretched alien do all day when it's not talking to a baby
If the languages are being learnt by babies and toddlers, how do they become so proficient in all the vocabulary and cultural nuances that never come up in the conversations of babies and toddlers
And if Teenager Y is the only person in the universe apart from a couple of toddlers who speaks both X and English where do the dictionaries come from that the secondbest backups look things up in
And how
I read this at leastyears ago, when a listserv book club called The Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia book club run by Laura Quilter I was a part of had closed up shop.
The group had a lot of wellknown ish authors and academics, Im not sure why they let me in, but it was great just being a fly on the wall! We did not read this book but it was on everyones must read lists for the field.
I remember enjoying it, being fascinated by the ideas, I have not gotten around to reading the sequels,
Now that the SFFBC subgroup challenge is going to read it, Im looking forward to rereading it and then carrying on./
Una de les novelles cabdals de la cienciaficció feminista, Hauria de ser més coneguda i llegida, This fiction is one of the more masterful pieces of literature of theth century, It should be considered for inclusion in reading lists for English majors, Don't let that terrorize you, The book is engrossing the plot is multilayered the concept is unique and the characters are easy to understand.
On the surface it's about learning to communicate with life forms so alien, it requires human children to interact with aliens during the child's language forming years.
A secondary plot line deals with the continued struggle between man and woman, Underlying all that is a theme dealing with freedom of speech,
This book has me scrabbling for every novel Ms, Elgin brings out.
,. La historia de Lengua materna nos presenta un mundo futurista en el que la mujer ha perdido todo derecho.
Las mujeres están sometidas completamente a los caprichos del hombre y son poco más que objetos para el uso y disfrute de éstos.
Todo este entorno opresor convivirá con una sociedad ubicada aproximádamente en el, con grandes avances tecnológicos.
Lo primero que choca, indudablemente de la novela es eso, Normalemente el progreso suele ir acompañado de más progreso, Conocer un mundo tan avanzado en inteligencia, y tan atrasado en derechos, asuta, Y da mucho que pensar, Qué pasaría si el hombre llegara a tener un poder y una conciencia tan avanzada Lo usaría para el bien común O seguría buscando el privilegio propio
Las historia ira sucediendo a lo largo de varias décadas y se nos irán presentando diferentes personajes.
En este mundo se distiguirán dos tipos de humanos, Los lingos y los "normales", Los lingos no son otra cosas que lingüistas, Personas terriblemente inteligentes y dotadas de un gran talento para adquirir idiomas, Tantos humanos como alienígenas, Bajo toda esta trama, las mujeres encontrar una manera de luchar, La única arma que tienen a mano, La creación de un nuevo idioma, Un idioma creado por mujeres para mujeres,
El libro me ha gustado mucho, Los personajes feméninos son increíbles, Sobre todo los personjaes de Michaela y Nazareth, Los masculinos era asquerosamente desagradables, por igual jajaja, La pega que le pongo es que, quizás, al tratarse de una trilogía, se me ha quedado como que quedá demasiado abierto.
Ahora tendré que leer las otras partes, Y las sagas no son lo mío,
En difnitiva. Un buen libro feminisita. Representa demasiado bien la sociedad en la que podríamos acabar si no se lucha, Buscaré pronto la segunda parte, Merece más fama de la que tiene, I first bought a copy of this book around the time that my poetry collection A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora placed second in theElgin Awards, an annual award bestowed on books of poetry by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association SFPA.
The Elgin Awards are named in honor of author Suzette Haden Elgin, who founded the SFPA in.
Although I already knew some things about Elgin at the time, I wanted to learn more about her, and so I
made it a project to spend some time over the coming months with her most famous work, thecult classic novel Native Tongue.
Of all other books, Native Tongue probably gets compared most often to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which came out only one year later, in: both novels imagine a dystopian future in which women have been stripped of their rights and must revert to being treated as chattel by men.
Feminist science fiction is not the only subgenre of science fiction Elgin pioneered in Native Tongue, though: Elgin also blazed a trail in how she envisioned the expanded role linguists might play in future civilizations, as the need for humans to communicate effectively with extraterrestrials becomes a reality.
It might be argued that without Elgin's Native Tongue, we would not have, say, Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life," the linguistcenteringshort story that inspired the acclaimed movie Arrival.
Elgin's fable of women furtively working together to invent a new language that will bring about their liberation is a tremendous novel of ideas, one that like Chiang's story, a decade later explores the implications of the SapirWhorf hypothesis in a dizzyingly original way.
And if you're worried that being heavy on ideas might make Native Tongue dull, you can rest easy.
Elgin's characterizations are lively, and the book is stuffed so full of dramatic incident murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, nefarious government men doing the creepy things nefarious government men do that it actually borders on feeling pulpy.
I admit I was initially a bit concerned that this might be a simplistic novel of moral outrage, focused on the obvious conflict between a righteous group "A" and a vicious group "B," but it turns out that Elgin's realistically complex world contains factions within factions: women opposing men, populists of all genders opposing an intellectual elite class, elites slyly jockeying for power with and/or outright backstabbing other elites, alliances and friendships being struck across faction lines, etc.
, etc. no one here is wholly innocent, In this, Native Tongue somewhat reminded me of another recent read I enjoyed more than I first expected to William Browning Spencer's Zod Wallop, which similarly blends authorial loftiness of mind with purely pleasurable plottiness.
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