Native Tongue

Synopsis

Native Tongue is a 1984 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 The trilogy is centered in a future dystopian American society where the 19th Amendment was repealed in 1991 and women have been stripped of civil rights.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 instructional materials are available.

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Details

Type

Book

Release date

August 1, 1984

Genres

science fiction

Created by

Suzette Haden Elgin, Chornyak Barren House

Countries

United States