Beyond the mother tongue : the postmonolingual condition / Yasemin Yildiz.
By: Yildiz, Yasemin.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: xi, 292 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780823255757; 0823241300 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Multilingualism and literature -- GermanyDDC classification: 830.9/34
Contents:
Introduction: beyond the mother tongue? Multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm -- The uncanny mother tongue: monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka -- The foreign in the mother tongue: words of foreign derivation and utopia in Theodor W. Adorno -- Detaching from the mother tongue: bilingualism and liberation in Yoko Tawada -- Surviving the mother tongue: literal translation and trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- Inventing a motherless tongue: mixed language and masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu -- Conclusion: toward a multilingual paradigm? The disaggregated mother tongue.
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 830.934 Yil 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | |
Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary 2nd floor | 830.934 Yil 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-284) and index.
Introduction: beyond the mother tongue? Multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm -- The uncanny mother tongue: monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka -- The foreign in the mother tongue: words of foreign derivation and utopia in Theodor W. Adorno -- Detaching from the mother tongue: bilingualism and liberation in Yoko Tawada -- Surviving the mother tongue: literal translation and trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- Inventing a motherless tongue: mixed language and masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu -- Conclusion: toward a multilingual paradigm? The disaggregated mother tongue.
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