Exophony

Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

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Beschreibung

<p>'Tawada's <b>strange, exquisite</b> book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' <i><b>The New Yorker</b> </i>on Tawada's <i>Memoirs of a Polar Bear</i><br><i><br>Are you formed by your mother tongue?</i><br><i>How might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms?</i></p><p>In this playful and daring interrogation of language, the globally acclaimed Yoko Tawada reveals the poetics, politics and potential of existing outside one's mother tongue. From Senegalese writers discarding colonial-enforced French to the increasing use of loan words in her native Japanese, Tawada deconstructs the ways in which the world shapes and is shaped by languages: their hidden systems of power, their sweeping histories and, ultimately, the people who claim, reject, adapt or romanticise them.</p><p><b><i>Exophony </i>is an invitation to revel in the possibilities that emerge when we dare to seek beyond the familiar - and a sharp, incisive series of essays in which Tawada's erudite wit and multidimensional curiosity sing.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780349704197

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

213 x 133 x 19 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Little, Brown Book Group