{"product_id":"tawada-yoko-9781498590068","title":"Tawada Yoko","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in both German and Japanese. The contributors of this volume recognize her as one of the most important contemporary international writers. Her published books alone number more than fifty volumes, with roughly the same number in German and Japanese. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTawada's writing unfolds at the intersections of borders, whether of language, identity, nationality, or gender. Her characters are all travelers of some sort, often foreigners and outsiders, caught in surreal in-between spaces, such as between language and culture, or between species, subjectivities, and identities. Sometimes they exist in the spaces between gendered and national identities; sometimes they are found caught between reality and the surreal, perhaps madness. Tawada has been one of the most prescient and provocative thin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe prolific and peripatetic TawadaYōko, who tells us in these pages that the word “national” meant nothing to her as a child other than as a brand name for kitchen appliances, continues to attract critical attention in a world equally innocent of older geopolitical borders. This, Doug Slaymaker’s second anthology of essays on Tawada, focuses on the linguistic and rhetorical in-betweenness of language in her works and their affront to the norms of narrative closure, be they originally written in Japanese, German, or English. Contributors, who include not only Tawada but also an international array of senior and junior scholars, mine Tawada for what she has to say about species not our own, a planet in ecological disarray, temporalities other than the linear, and as Slaymaker puts it in his critical introduction, those places where our once ordinary reality now encounters “dream space, the surreal, perhaps madness.” -- John Whittier Treat, Yale University\u003cbr\u003eTawadaYōko is one of the most significant writers of our time, and the contributors to Doug Slaymaker’s outstanding collection of essays show us just how and why her writing—novels, plays, poems, essays—has such resonance today. Tawada, who writes both in Japanese and in German, the language of her adopted country, regularly poses the question that animates her own lead essay here: What does it mean to be human? What is language? Identity? Gender? Nation? How do we negotiate the borders between these troubling terms? Given the experimental nature of Tawada’s writing—her almost visceral response to words and their etymologies—the incisive readings found here will be helpful, not just to Japanese scholars but also to anyone who wants to understand our own literary moment. A truly exciting book! -- Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003eThis riveting analysis by an impressive constellation of international scholars combines with post-Fukushima essays by TawadaYōko to yield fresh and even indispensable perspectives on this magnificent writer and her many contributions to thinking language and world literature today. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in twenty-first century concepts and practices of translation, kinship, temporality, media, and eco-critical thresholds. -- Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Doug Slaymaker \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. \"Choosing Between Life and Human,\" Tawada Yoko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"Theory, Fiction, and the Lightness of Translation: Tawada Yōko’s Schwager in Bordeaux\/Borudō no gikei,” Brett de Bary \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. “Image and the Unity of a Language: Translation and the Indeterminacy of National Language,” Naoki Sakai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. \"Yoko Tawada’s Poetics on the Threshold of Different Writing Systems,\" Sigrid Wiegel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"Translationalism as poetic principle: Tawada’s translational rewriting of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,'” Christine Ivanovic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. \"Yoko Tawada Writes Ernst Jandl: Movements of Alphabetic And Sino-Japanese Writing Across Time And Media,\" Gizem Arslan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \"Sprachmutter: The Death of the Mother Tongue,\" Paul McQuade \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. “Yoko Tawada’s Überseezungen: Feminist Self-Translation and Creative Resistance,” Madalina Meirosu \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \"Laudatio for Uljana Wolf, Erlangener Prize for Poetry As Translation 1980,\" Tawada Yoko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. \"Spherical Narrative Temporality in Tawada Yōko’s fiction,\" Fujiwara Dan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. “From the Linguistic Mother to the Salt Water Mother: Poetics of Catastrophe in Tawada Yōko’s Eco-critical Writing,” Annegret Märten \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. \"The Destruction and Recreation of Japanese Mythology through Yoko Tawada's Literature,\" Taniguchi Sachiyo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. \"Words That I Swallowed Whole: The Linguistic Edibility of Yoko Tawada’s Exophonic Writings,\" Tingting Hui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. \"Transmigration and Cultural Memory in Yoko Tawada’s Etüden im Schnee 7670,\" Suzuko Mousel Knott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. “Staging of Self, Performance of Life: Formation of a Subject in Yuki no renshūsei,” Tomoko Takeuchi Slutsky \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. \"The hands of bears, the hands of men: Animal Writing in Tawada Yōko’s Tawada Yōko’s Yuki no renshūsei,\" Doug Slaymaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17. \"The fictional-Reality of actual-Virtuality: Yōko Tawada’s Kentōshi (The Emissary),\" Kim Seungyeon","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040856834391,"sku":"9781498590068","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498590068.jpg?v=1750948081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tawada-yoko-9781498590068","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}