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A review by saramdeuri
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Such an excellent exploration of language/linguistics and feminism. The bits and pieces of invented documents and speeches etc at the beginning of each chapter really worked in bringing the world alive. You really get to feel for the women, especially Nazareth and Michaela. they're a lesbian power couple to me... I'll refrain from writing much here because I feel it's one of those books that works well with minimal knowledge.
The context surrounding the book is super interesting too, what with the author being an accomplished linguist and feminist too. I feel she really achieved what she set out for in this book. I doubt I'll read the rest of the series, because I enjoy the open ending of this one so much, but I'm interested in reading her more academic linguistics stuff.
The context surrounding the book is super interesting too, what with the author being an accomplished linguist and feminist too. I feel she really achieved what she set out for in this book. I doubt I'll read the rest of the series, because I enjoy the open ending of this one so much, but I'm interested in reading her more academic linguistics stuff.