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

Author/creator Yildiz, Yasemin, 1969-
Format Electronic and Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press,
Descriptionxi, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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 Ă–zdamar -- Inventing a motherless tongue: mixed language and masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu -- Conclusion: toward a multilingual paradigm? The disaggregated mother tongue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-284) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011028583
ISBN9780823241309 (cloth : alk. paper)

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