Beyond the Mother Tongue

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Yasemin Yildiz

306 psl.

2013. aasta

Pehme kaanega

Vöötkood: 9780823255757

Identifies the idea of monolingualism as a modern European invention dating to the 18th century that functions to obscure the widespread nature of multilingualism. Analyses the tension between multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm in 20th century literature through the German writings of Kafka, Adorno, Tawada, Özdamar, and Zaimoglu.