Yoko Tawada Voices from Everywhere

Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Ysko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays that explore the plurality of voices and cultures in Tawada's work and push on to explicate the poetics and intellectual underpinnings of her writing. Analyses of her fiction are paired with examinations of its philosophic and aesthetic foundations. This is an essential collection for anyone wit

Doug Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere	p. 1
Tawada Yoko Does Not Exist	p. 13
Translation, Exophony, Omniphony	p. 21
Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet	p. 35
Writing in the Ravine of Language	p. 45
Das kurze Leuchten unter dem Tor oder auf dem Weg zur getraumten Sprache: Poetological Reflections in Works by Yoko Tawada	p. 59
Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational Imaginary	p. 77
Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yoko Tawada's Uberseezungen	p. 91
The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yoko Tawada's Writings	p. 111
Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yoko Tawada	p. 125
Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in Tawada Yoko's "The Gotthard Railway"	p. 137
Tawada Yoko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany	p. 153
Index	p. 169
About the Contributors	p. 173
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