Native Tongue

Name: Native Tongue
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ISBN: 9781558612464

ISBN-10: 1558612467

ISBN-13: 9781558612464

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan Squier

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Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists --a small, clannish group of families --have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages. Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family,…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 11/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 327
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English