Adorno) producing an oeuvre in two separate languages simultaneously (Yoko Tawada) writing by literally translating from the 'mother tongue' into another language (Emine Sevgi Ozdamar) and mixing different languages, codes, and registers within one text (Feridun Zaimoglu). Because newer multilingual forms and practices exist in tension with the paradigm, which alternately obscures, pathologizes, or exoticizes them, this book argues that they can best be understood as 'postmonolingual' that is, as marked by the continuing force of monolingualism.Focused on canonical and minority writers working in German in the twentieth century, Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned 'mother tongue' about another language (Franz Kafka) mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. As a result of this view, writing in anything but one's 'mother tongue' has come to be seen as an aberration.Beyond the Mother Tongue demonstrates the impact of this monolingual paradigm on literature and culture but also charts incipient moves beyond it. According to this monolingual paradigm, individuals are imagined to be able to think and feel properly only in one language, while multiple languages are seen as a threat to the cohesion of individuals and communities, institutions and disciplines. Yet it has become a dominant, if overlooked, structuring principle of modernity. Monolingualism-the idea that having just one language is the norm is only a recent invention, dating to late-eighteenth-century Europe. KEYWORDS: world literature, Goethe, West-Eastern Divan, Yoko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear, the national Light of how the transnational migrants’ perspective becomes literally difficult to Propose to read Tawada’s novel Memoirs of a Polar Bear as “world literature” in Of nation and the postnational in Goethe and Tawada alongside Bhabha, and Using the method of constellation, we examine the question In her playful way of writing, she explores the interrelationship between “Western” and “Eastern” cultures, thereby translating them inĬross-border poetics. Yoko Tawada is from East Asia and has been writing poems, prose, and plays in Themselves through their projections of ‘otherness.’” The contemporary author Study of world literature might be the study of the way in which cultures recognize His idea of “world literature” canīe reframed when it is linked by Homi K.

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