Beyond the Mother Tongue : The Postmonolingual Condition

Yildiz, Yasemin

Fordham University Press（2013/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 306 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780823255757
• DDC分類 830.934

Full Description

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).

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Beyond the Mother Tongue? Multilingual Practices and the Monolingual Paradigm 1 1. The Uncanny Mother Tongue: Monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka 30 2. The Foreign in the Mother Tongue: Words of Foreign Derivation and Utopia in Theodor W. Adorno 67 3. Detaching from the Mother Tongue: Bilingualism and Liberation in Yoko Tawada 109 4. Surviving the Mother Tongue: Literal Translation and Trauma in Emine Sevgi Ozdamar 143 5. Inventing a Motherless Tongue: Mixed Language and Masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu 169 Conclusion: Toward a Multilingual Paradigm? The Disaggregated Mother Tongue 203 Notes 213 Works Cited 259 Index 285