Yoko Tawada

Voices from Everywhere
Herausgeber: Slaymaker, Douglas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Ysko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays that 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. This is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122730
• ISBN-10: 0739122738
• Artikelnr.: 22990000

Autorenporträt

Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

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