Beyond the mother tongue the postmonolingual condition / Yasemin Yildiz.
| Author/creator | Yildiz, Yasemin, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, |
| Description | xi, 292 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: beyond the mother tongue? Multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm -- The uncanny mother tongue: monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka -- The foreign in the mother tongue: words of foreign derivation and utopia in Theodor W. Adorno -- Detaching from the mother tongue: bilingualism and liberation in Yoko Tawada -- Surviving the mother tongue: literal translation and trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar -- Inventing a motherless tongue: mixed language and masculinity in Feridun Zaimolu -- Conclusion: toward a multilingual paradigm? The disaggregated mother tongue. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-284) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011028583 |
| ISBN | 9780823241309 (cloth : alk. paper) |