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Yoko Tawada in Dialogue

Yoko Tawada in Dialogue

Tawada, Yoko
Held, Christoph
Lloyd, Alexandra

Paperback

Series: Treasures of the Taylorian: Writers in Residence, Book 2

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0995456437
ISBN13: 9780995456433
Publisher: Taylor Institution Library
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The works of the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada, who lives in Germany and writes in both German and Japanese, demand the suspension of common concepts of reading, understanding, and thinking. Her translingual writing is based on a playful and, at the same time, critical handling of language and various processes of trans­lation: from one language into another, from thoughts into text or sounds, from sounds into text and vice versa. In many of her texts, the linguistic material is taken apart, alienated, and recomposed, in order to achieve new modes of expression, and raise its poetic potential. This book shows the challenges posed by this approach by documenting new translations and essays which originate from her time as DAAD Writer in Residence at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, and an exhibition at the Taylor Institution Library.

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