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Beyond the Mother Tongue

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  • 306 pages
  • 11 hours of reading

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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, OEzdamar, and Zaimoglu.

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Beyond the Mother Tongue, Yasemin Yildiz

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2013
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