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Beyond the mother tongue : the postmonolingual condition
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- Creator
- Yasemin Yildiz
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780823241309, 0823241300
- OCLC
- ocn743298777
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-284) and index.
- 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