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Native Tongue New Edition
Author(s): Suzette Haden Elgin (Author)
- Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2000
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 327 pages
- ISBN-10: 1558612467
- ISBN-13: 9781558612464
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Less well known than the The Handmaid's Tale but just as apocalyptic in [its] vision . . . Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue New Edition. . . records female tribulation in a world where . . . women have no public rights at all. Elgin's heroines do, however, have one set of weapons--words of their own." --Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The New York Times Book Review
"Native Tongue New Edition brings to life not only the possibility of a women's language, but also the rationale for one. . . . [It is] a language that can bring to life concepts men have never needed, have never dreamed of--and thus change the world. Elgin never makes the mistake of easy utopiansim or over-optimism. Her women revel in patience." --Voice Literary Supplement
"As a nonreader of science fiction . . . I urge Native Tongue New Edition upon you. . . . Like Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale but more drastically and distinctly, Elgin has carried current fundamentalist views on women to their 'logical' conclusion. . . . Above all she understands that until women find the words and syntax for what they need to say, they will never say it, nor will the world hear it. . . . There isn't a phony or romantic moment here, and the story is absolutely compelling." --Women's Review of Books
"Elgin's novel will inspire those who believe that women's words can change the world. Read it!"
--Marleen S. Barr, author of Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond
