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Beyond the Mother Tongue
The Postmonolingual Condition
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English
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2013
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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).
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Contributor: Yasemin Yildiz
Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.
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“A bold, ambitious, and timely evaluation of philosophical and literary imagination of language.”---—B. Venkat Mani, Author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk
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Yildiz offers an enlightening argument against the monolingual paradigm that has dominated linguistic thinking since the 18th century, that insists that the mother tongue connects a people to their nation and culture, allowing them to communicate at the deepest level.
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. . .Yildiz's Book [is] a particularly timely intervention in debates about multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and integration of immigrants everywhere.
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“A welcome, necessary, and well-crafted addition to a variety of studies in the fields of German-Turkish and German-Jewish studies—studies that increasingly participate in the much broader discussion of modernity/modernism, postmodern identities, globalization, multiculturalism, and ethnicity studies.”---—Amir Eshel, Stanford University
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'Beyond the Mother Tongue' is an ambitious and deeply fascinating book, written in a clear and accessible style.---—Matthew Hart, Columbia University
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Yasemin Yildiz has written an award winning monograph that deconstructs the conceptual frameworks of multilingualism and monolingualism that canonical and minority writers have been limited to.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Beyond the Mother Tongue? Multilingual Practices and the Monolingual Paradigm
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1. The Uncanny Mother Tongue: Monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka
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2. The Foreign in the Mother Tongue: Words of Foreign Derivation and Utopia in Theodor W. Adorno
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3. Detaching from the Mother Tongue: Bilingualism and Liberation in Yoko Tawada
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4. Surviving the Mother Tongue: Literal Translation and Trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar
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5. Inventing a Motherless Tongue: Mixed Language and Masculinity in Feridun Zaimoğlu
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Conclusion: Toward a Multilingual Paradigm? The Disaggregated Mother Tongue
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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eBook ISBN:
9780823255771
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