Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition: The Postmonolingual Condition
ISBN: 9780823255771
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Multilingualism and literature -- Germany;

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.

Yildiz Yasemin :

Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.


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