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Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition
Author(s): Yasemin Yildiz (Author)
- Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
- Publication Date: January 2, 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: Modern Language Initiative
- Print length: 306 pages
- ISBN-10: 0823241300
- ISBN-13: 9780823241309
Book 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).
About the Author
Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.