Beyond the mother tongue
Subtitle: the postmonolingual condition
By: Yasemin Yildiz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780823241309
Subjects: German literature; History and criticism; Theory; Multilingualism and literature
Description: "Focused on canonical and minority writers working in German in the twentieth century, 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). Through these analyses, Beyond the Mother Tongue suggests that dimensions of gender, kinship, and affect encoded in the 'mother tongue' are crucial to the persistence of monolingualism and the challenge of multilingualism." -- BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: beyond the mother tongue? Multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm; title: The uncanny mother tongue: monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka; title: The foreign in the mother tongue: words of foreign derivation and utopia in Theodor W. Adorno; title: Detaching from the mother tongue: bilingualism and liberation in Yoko Tawada; title: Surviving the mother tongue: literal translation and trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar; title: Inventing a motherless tongue: mixed language and masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu; title: Conclusion: toward a multilingual paradigm? The disaggregated mother tongue.