By Cynthia Ligon

ISBN-10: 1546800565

ISBN-13: 9781546800569

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Author Cynthia (Toni) Ligon’s mom, Luzetta, continually had a truly distinct method of conversing. For Luzetta, who was once raised within the South through the nice melancholy, this used to be a language steeped in culture, historical past, relations, and community.

While Ligon knew that her mother’s grammar, syntax, and elegance have been certain, she didn’t totally comprehend the dialect’s wealthy context until eventually she all started learning linguistics and cultural anthropology as a faculty pupil. It was once then that she discovered that Luzetta’s dialect was once protecting a lifestyle lengthy forgotten. It used to be emblematic of a definite time, position, and people.

Now, in My Mother’s Tongue: Luzetta,Ligon celebrates her mother’s language and its position in her personal lifestyles. The research combines own historical past with contextual info to create a stirring ode to at least one woman’s voice. Ligon infuses her paintings with heat and love for her mom and the teachings she taught her. Luzetta, now eighty-five and nonetheless thriving, additionally has classes to coach you approximately language, dialect, and cultural reminiscence.

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