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.
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
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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 ...