Chapters in this book

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