Yoko Tawada Voices from Everywhere

Name: Yoko Tawada Voices from Everywhere
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ISBN: 9780739122730

ISBN-10: 0739122738

ISBN-13: 9780739122730

Edition: 2007

Authors: Douglas Slaymaker, Hiltrud Arens, Bernard Banoun, Bettina Brandt, Suzuko Mousel Knott

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Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first English-language volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yoko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Tawada has garnered numerous accolades and prizes-such as the Akutagawa Prize for literature (Japan) and the Goethe medal (Germany)-and was featured in a presidential panel at the 2006 Modern Language Association (MLA Conference, organized by MLA president Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a foreword to this volume: The chapters explore the plurality of voices and cultures in Tawada's work and push on to explicate the poetics and intellectual underpinnings of her writing. Analyses of her fiction are paired…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication date: 10/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.09" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere




Tawada Yoko Does Not Exist




Translation, Exophony, Omniphony




Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet




Writing in the Ravine of Language




Das kurze Leuchten unter dem Tor oder auf dem Weg zur getraumten Sprache: Poetological Reflections in Works by Yoko Tawada




Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational Imaginary




Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yoko Tawada's Uberseezungen




The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yoko Tawada's Writings




Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yoko Tawada




Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in Tawada Yoko's "The Gotthard Railway"




Tawada Yoko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany



Index


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