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Yoko Tawada

Voices from Everywhere

Edited by Douglas Slaymaker - Contributions by Hiltrud Arens; Bernard Banoun; Bettina Brandt; Suzuko Mousel Knott; Christina Kraenzle; Margaret Mitsutani; Marjorie Perloff; Keijiro Suga; Reiko Tachibana and Yasemin Yildiz

Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a preface to this volume. The essays 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. The essayists represent a wide range of scholars and translators who are intimate with Tawada's work in German, Japanese, and/or English. Many of the essays begin as close readings of the German and Japanese texts.Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 186 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-0-7391-2272-3 • Hardback • September 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-2273-0 • Paperback • October 2007 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-6280-4 • eBook • September 2007 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Series: AsiaWorld
Subjects: Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.
Part 1 Foreword
Part 2 Introduction: YökoTawada: Voices from Everywhere
Part 3 Tawada Yöko Does Not Exist
Part 4 Nation, Transnation, Translation
Chapter 5 Translation, Exophony, Omniphony
Chapter 6 Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet
Chapter 7 Writing in the Ravine of Language
Chapter 8 YökoTawada's Poetological Reflections on her German Prose Works
Part 9 Bodies and Belonging
Chapter 10 Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational Imaginary
Chapter 11 Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yöko Tawada's Überseezungen
Chapter 12 The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yöko Tawada's Writings
Part 13 Language Constructions and Identity Production
Chapter 14 Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yöko Tawada
Chapter 16 Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in "The Gotthard Railway"
Chapter 17 Tawada Yöko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany
Tawada's characteristic method of writing and translation...receive positive treatment from several contributors....This is a timely and insightful collection of essays on an important writer of her generation.
— The Journal of Japanese Studies, February 2009


One of this collection's significant contributions is that it crafts a space within the Western academy from which Japanese literature can be understood as participating in the conversation on globalization, not as so much cultural cache for increasingly cosmopolitan consumers, but as a literature that is itself commenting on the globalizing process.... Voices from Everywhere creates a transcultural framework in which these multiple readings are encouraged to cross-fertalize and open up beyond the parameters of its pages and invites a sharing of theoretical sources accross area studies borders.
— Robin L. Tierney; Journal of Asian Studies, February 2010


To capture the multilingual, cosmopolitan brilliance of Yöko Tawada would require assembling a team of scholars specializing in different disciplines and regions—and that is precisely what Douglas Slaymaker has accomplished in this fine volume. At last, we have a study worthy of one of the most interesting writers at work in the world today.
— Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago


Yoko Tawada

Voices from Everywhere

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  • Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a preface to this volume. The essays 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. The essayists represent a wide range of scholars and translators who are intimate with Tawada's work in German, Japanese, and/or English. Many of the essays begin as close readings of the German and Japanese texts.Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.
Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 186 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-0-7391-2272-3 • Hardback • September 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
    978-0-7391-2273-0 • Paperback • October 2007 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
    978-0-7391-6280-4 • eBook • September 2007 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
    Series: AsiaWorld
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / General, Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Author
Author
  • Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Foreword
    Part 2 Introduction: YökoTawada: Voices from Everywhere
    Part 3 Tawada Yöko Does Not Exist
    Part 4 Nation, Transnation, Translation
    Chapter 5 Translation, Exophony, Omniphony
    Chapter 6 Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the Alphabet
    Chapter 7 Writing in the Ravine of Language
    Chapter 8 YökoTawada's Poetological Reflections on her German Prose Works
    Part 9 Bodies and Belonging
    Chapter 10 Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational Imaginary
    Chapter 11 Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yöko Tawada's Überseezungen
    Chapter 12 The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yöko Tawada's Writings
    Part 13 Language Constructions and Identity Production
    Chapter 14 Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yöko Tawada
    Chapter 16 Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in "The Gotthard Railway"
    Chapter 17 Tawada Yöko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany
Reviews
Reviews
  • Tawada's characteristic method of writing and translation...receive positive treatment from several contributors....This is a timely and insightful collection of essays on an important writer of her generation.
    — The Journal of Japanese Studies, February 2009


    One of this collection's significant contributions is that it crafts a space within the Western academy from which Japanese literature can be understood as participating in the conversation on globalization, not as so much cultural cache for increasingly cosmopolitan consumers, but as a literature that is itself commenting on the globalizing process.... Voices from Everywhere creates a transcultural framework in which these multiple readings are encouraged to cross-fertalize and open up beyond the parameters of its pages and invites a sharing of theoretical sources accross area studies borders.
    — Robin L. Tierney; Journal of Asian Studies, February 2010


    To capture the multilingual, cosmopolitan brilliance of Yöko Tawada would require assembling a team of scholars specializing in different disciplines and regions—and that is precisely what Douglas Slaymaker has accomplished in this fine volume. At last, we have a study worthy of one of the most interesting writers at work in the world today.
    — Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago


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