Untying the Mother Tongue

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Untying the Mother Tongue is written by Antonio Castore and published by Series Cultural Inquiry. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3965580493 (ISBN 10) and 9783965580497 (ISBN 13).

Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state. Yet, current celebrations of multilingualism reflect the recent demands of global capitalism, raising other challenges. The contributions from international scholars on literature, philosophy, and culture, analyze and problematize the concept of 'mother tongue', rethinking affective and cognitive attachments to language while deconstructing its metaphysical, capitalist, and colonialist presuppositions.