Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition

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c on ten ts Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Beyond the Mother Tongue? Multilingual Practices and the Monolingual Paradigm 1 1. The Uncanny Mother Tongue: Monolingualism and Jewishness in Franz Kafka 30 2. The Foreign in the Mother Tongue: Words of Foreign Derivation and Utopia in Theodor W. Adorno 67 3. Detaching from the Mother Tongue: Bilingualism and Liberation in Yoko Tawada 109 4. Surviving the Mother Tongue: Literal Translation and Trauma in Emine Sevgi Özdamar 143 5. Inventing a Motherless Tongue: Mixed Language and Masculinity in Feridun Zaimoğlu 169 Conclusion: Toward a Multilingual Paradigm? The Disaggregated Mother Tongue 203 Notes 213 Works Cited 259 Index 285 ...