Beyond the Mother Tongue

Beyond the Mother Tongue

The Postmonolingual Condition

  • Autor: Yildiz, Yasemin
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823255757
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823255771
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823255764
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2013
  • Any de publicació digital: 2013
  • Mes: Desembre
  • Idioma: Anglés
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 oeuvre in two separate languages simultaneously (Yoko Tawada); and mixing different languages, codes, and registers within one text (Feridun Zaimoglu).
  • Cover
  • BEYOND THE MOTHER TONGUE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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