Mirene Arsanios

Colonialism, Class, and Giving What You Don¿t Have

Notes on Mother Tongues

"Here the mirror image of the almost hallucinatory, heartrending loss of the familiar is literary defamiliarization. Arsanios both mourns and blasts apart the notion of the mother tongue, reminding us that for each "mother tongue" at least another tongue is silenced. Desire propels her genredefying writing, which grief notwithstanding still manages to tongue languages, and that is her genius."--Mónica de la Torre Poetry. Hybrid. Middle Eastern Studies.

The Autobiography of a Language

Mirene Arsanios

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