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Subjects: LCSH: Esperanto—History. | BISAC: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics /
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Document Outline
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Introduction
Part I. The Dream of a Universal Language
1. Zamenhof’s Babel
2. West of Babel
3. A World of Words
4. A “Vexed Question of Paternity”
5. Lingvo Internacia
Samideanoj I: NASK, or Total Immersion
1. Ĉu vi lernas ĝin?
2. Affixed
3. Greta’s World
4. “A Stay-at-Home, Midwestern Guy”
5. Filipo and Nini
6. Total Immersion
7. Brigadoon Out
Part II. Doktoro Esperanto and the Shadow People
1. Jewish Questions
2. Ten Million Promises
3. A Shadow People
4. Mysterious Phantoms
5. Homaranismo
6. Idiots
7. The Sword of Damocles
Samideanoj II: Iznik to Białystok, or unu granda rondo familia
IZNIK
1. Revenants
2. “The Blackened Gull”
3. The Turk’s Head
BIAŁYSTOK
4. Bridge of Words
5. Big-endians and Little-endians
6. Adrian
7. Flickering Shadows
8. A Nation Without Pyres
Part III. The Heretic, the Priestess, and the Invisible Empire
1. The Heretic
2. “Language of Ne’er-do-wells and Communists”
3. Amerika Esperantisto
4. Vaŝingtono
5. A Map in One Color
6. “A Bastard Language”
7. The Priestess
8. Vanishings
Samideanoj III: Hanoi to Havana, or Usonozo
HANOI
1. Usonozo
2. The American War
3. La Finavenkisto
4. The English Teacher
5. VIPs
6. Number One
7. You Got That Right
HAVANA
8. The True Believer
9. “Tiel la Mondo Iras”
10. Devil’s Advocates
11. The Director
Part IV. Esperanto in a Global Babel
1. Reinventing Hope
2. Aggressor
3. Lapenna Agonistes
4. Many Voices, One World
5. Sekso Kaj Egaleco
6. Samseksemuloj
7. Rauma’s Children
8. Global Babel
9. Esperanto in 2087
Samideanoj IV: Bona Espero, or Androids
1. “A Little Piece of Heaven”
2. Androids
3. Utopians
4. Paper Kids
5. Tia Carla
6. The Builder
7. Plantman
8. Sebastian’s Mantras
9. Mosaic of the Future
Coda: Justice in Babel
Glossary
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Notes
Notes: Introduction
Notes 1
Notes 2
Notes 3
Notes 4
Notes: Coda
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Also by Esther Schor
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