Beyond the mother tongue : the postmonolingual condition

Beyond the mother tongue : the postmonolingual condition / Yasemin Yildiz.

Author/creator	Yildiz, Yasemin, 1969-
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Description	xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	German literature--20th century --History and criticism --Theory, etc. Multilingualism and literature--Germany.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-284) and index.
Genre/form	Aufsatzsammlung.
LCCN	2011028583
ISBN	9780823241309 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0823241300 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PT405 .Y55 2012	✔ Available	Place Hold