Beyond the Mother Tongue

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  • ISBN 9780823255757
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Dec 2013
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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).

Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.

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