Here are links to the sources and people mentioned in the videoSuzette Haden Elgin's keynote address is unfortunately behind a paywall Absolute Wri. Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue 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."/5(). · For answers, one might look to Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue trilogy, which began in and has been given a desperately needed reprint by the Feminist Press this year for its thirty-fifth anniversary. A forgotten classic of the genre — it beat The Handmaid’s Tale to publication by a year — Native Tongue is heady, strange, and.
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Native Tongue is a book which assumes that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (also known as the linguistic relativity hypothesis) is true -- it assumes that human (and nonhuman) language does have power to structure human perceptions in significant ways and can be used deliberately to bring about social change. (As opposed to the idea that the social change must come first and will then be reflected in changes in the language.). “Native Tongue 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 utopianism or over-optimism. Her women revel in patience.”. Native Tongue is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Suzette Haden Elgin, the first book in her series of the same name. The trilogy is centered in a future dystopian American society where the 19th Amendment was repealed in and women have been stripped of civil rights. A group of women, part of a worldwide group of linguists who facilitate human communication with alien races, create a new language for women as an act of resistance. Elgin created that language, Láadan, and.
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