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Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández

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Abstract

Meditating on works of fiction such as Luis Humberto Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Tato Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics and as a corrective challenge to the positivism of ethnic, demographic, and geographic labeling. From Dell Hymes to Norma Mendoza-Denton in applied linguistics and from Friedrich Schiller to Emmanuel Levinas in aesthetics, Sommer and Wald consider what they call the “pride of interstitial place” in multilingual, cross-border writing and music. The article takes cues from sociolinguistics, dance, and musicology, as it advances a wager about the embodied movements of multilingual poetics.

Keywords: bimusicality, Border Studies, dance, embodiment, Chicano/a literature, aesthetics, Schiller

How to Cite:

Sommer, D. & Wald, E., (2012) “Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández”, Critical Multilingualism Studies 1(1), 74-93.