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Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a preface to this volume. The essays 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 with examinations of its philosophic and aesthetic foundations. The essayists represent a wide range of scholars and translators who are intimate with Tawada's work in German, Japanese, and/or English. Many of the essays begin as close readings of the German and Japanese texts.Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction: YökoTawada: Voices from Everywhere
Part 3 Tawada Yöko Does Not Exist
Part 4 Nation, Transnation, Translation
Chapter 5 Translation, Exophony, Omniphony
Chapter 6 Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet
Chapter 7 Writing in the Ravine of Language
Chapter 8 YökoTawada's Poetological Reflections on her German Prose Works
Part 9 Bodies and Belonging
Chapter 10 Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational Imaginary
Chapter 11 Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yöko Tawada's Überseezungen
Chapter 12 The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yöko Tawada's Writings
Part 13 Language Constructions and Identity Production
Chapter 14 Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yöko Tawada
Chapter 16 Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in "The Gotthard Railway"
Chapter 17 Tawada Yöko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany

Product details

Published Sep 16 2007
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 186
ISBN 9780739162804
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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