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This collection brings together scholars from around the world to recognize and assess the achievements of Tawada Y¿ko, the prolific and highly lauded author who writes in Japanese and German.
List of contents
Introduction, by Doug Slaymaker
Chapter 1. "Choosing Between Life and Human," Tawada Yoko
Chapter 2. "Theory, Fiction, and the Lightness of Translation: Tawada Y¿ko's Schwager in Bordeaux/Borud¿ no gikei," Brett de Bary
Chapter 3. "Image and the Unity of a Language: Translation and the Indeterminacy of National Language," Naoki Sakai
Chapter 4. "Yoko Tawada's Poetics on the Threshold of Different Writing Systems," Sigrid Wiegel
Chapter 5. "Translationalism as poetic principle: Tawada's translational rewriting of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis,'" Christine Ivanovic
Chapter 6. "Yoko Tawada Writes Ernst Jandl: Movements of Alphabetic And Sino-Japanese Writing Across Time And Media," Gizem Arslan
Chapter 7. "Sprachmutter: The Death of the Mother Tongue," Paul McQuade
Chapter 8. "Yoko Tawada's Überseezungen: Feminist Self-Translation and Creative Resistance," Madalina Meirosu
Chapter 9. "Laudatio for Uljana Wolf, Erlangener Prize for Poetry As Translation 1980," Tawada Yoko
Chapter 10. "Spherical Narrative Temporality in Tawada Y¿ko's fiction," Fujiwara Dan
Chapter 11. "From the Linguistic Mother to the Salt Water Mother: Poetics of Catastrophe in Tawada Y¿ko's Eco-critical Writing," Annegret Märten
Chapter 12. "The Destruction and Recreation of Japanese Mythology through Yoko Tawada's Literature," Taniguchi Sachiyo
Chapter 13. "Words That I Swallowed Whole: The Linguistic Edibility of Yoko Tawada's Exophonic Writings," Tingting Hui
Chapter 14. "Transmigration and Cultural Memory in Yoko Tawada's Etüden im Schnee 7670," Suzuko Mousel Knott
Chapter 15. "Staging of Self, Performance of Life: Formation of a Subject in Yuki no rensh¿sei," Tomoko Takeuchi Slutsky
Chapter 16. "The hands of bears, the hands of men: Animal Writing in Tawada Y¿ko's Tawada Y¿ko's Yuki no rensh¿sei," Doug Slaymaker
Chapter 17. "The fictional-Reality of actual-Virtuality: Y¿ko Tawada's Kent¿shi (The Emissary)," Kim Seungyeon
About the author
Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.
Summary
This collection brings together scholars from around the world to recognize and assess the achievements of Tawada Yoko, the prolific and highly lauded author who writes in Japanese and German.
