Beyond the Mother Tongue : : The Postmonolingual Condition /

Beyond the Mother Tongue : : The Postmonolingual Condition / / Yasemin Yildiz.

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Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. Adorno); producing an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Yildiz, Yasemin,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Beyond the Mother Tongue? Multilingual Practices and the Monolingual Paradigm
  • 1. The Uncanny Mother Tongue: Monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka
  • 2. The Foreign in the Mother Tongue: Words of Foreign Derivation and Utopia in Theodor W. Adorno
  • 3. Detaching from the Mother Tongue: Bilingualism and Liberation in Yoko Tawada
  • 4. Surviving the Mother Tongue: Literal Translation and Trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar
  • 5. Inventing a Motherless Tongue: Mixed Language and Masculinity in Feridun Zaimoğlu
  • Conclusion: Toward a Multilingual Paradigm? The Disaggregated Mother Tongue
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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