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Yoko Tawada
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Author : Douglas Slaymaker
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2007-09-16
Yoko Tawada written by Douglas Slaymaker and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Ysko 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.Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.
Tawada Yoko
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Author : Doug Slaymaker
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-11-06
Tawada Yoko written by Doug Slaymaker and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yōko. Yōko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in both German and Japanese. The contributors of this volume recognize her as one of the most important contemporary international writers. Her published books alone number more than fifty volumes, with roughly the same number in German and Japanese. Tawada’s writing unfolds at the intersections of borders, whether of language, identity, nationality, or gender. Her characters are all travelers of some sort, often foreigners and outsiders, caught in surreal in-between spaces, such as between language and culture, or between species, subjectivities, and identities. Sometimes they exist in the spaces between gendered and national identities; sometimes they are found caught between reality and the surreal, perhaps madness. Tawada has been one of the most prescient and provocative thinkers on the complexities of travelling and living in the contemporary world, and thus has always been obsessed with passports and trouble at borders. This current volume was conceived to augment the first edited volume of Tawada’s work, Yōko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere, which appeared from Lexington Books in 2007. That volume represented the first extensive English language coverage of Tawada’s writing. In the meantime, there is increased scholarly interest in Tawada’s artistic activity, and it is time for more sustained critical examinations of her output. This collection gathers and analyzes essays that approach the complex international themes found in many of Tawada’s works.
The Last Children Of Tokyo
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2018-06-07
The Last Children Of Tokyo written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-07 with Fiction categories.
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
Facing The Bridge
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2007-05-17
Facing The Bridge written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-17 with Fiction categories.
From Japan to Vietnam to Amsterdam to the Canary Islands, these three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada float between cultures, identities, and the dreamwork of the imagination Amo, an African kidnapped to Europe as a boy, and Tamao, a Japanese exchange student in Germany, live in different countries but are being followed by the same shadow...Kazuko, a young professional tourist, is lured to Vietnam by a mysterious postcard...On the Canary Islands, a nameless translator battles a banana grove and a series of Saint Georges... These three new tales by master storyteller Yoko Tawada cross cultures and histories with a sensuous playfulness as sweet as a box of candied hearts—even Michael Jackson makes an appearance. In Facing the Bridge, Tawada's second collection of stories with New Directions, obsession becomes delight as the reader is whisked into a world where identities flicker and shift in a never-ending balance.
Where Europe Begins Stories
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2007-05-17
Where Europe Begins Stories written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-17 with Fiction categories.
A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities." In these stories' disparate settings—Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany—the reader becomes as much a foreigner as the author, or the figures that fill this book: the ghost of a burned woman, a traveler on the Trans-Siberian railroad, a mechanical doll, a tongue, a monk who leaps into his own reflection. Through the timeless art of storytelling, Yoko Tawada discloses the virtues of bewilderment, estrangement, and Hilaritas: the goddess of rejoicing.
The Naked Eye
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Author : Yōko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2009
The Naked Eye written by Yōko Tawada and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency."--Michael Porter, The New York Times
Yoko Tawada In Dialogue
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-28
Yoko Tawada In Dialogue written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-28 with categories.
This book combines German and Japanese texts by Yoko Tawada with new English translations and a documentation of her time as Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford, including an exhibition of multilingual writing at the Taylor Institution Library in 2017.
Memoirs Of A Polar Bear
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: Portobello Books
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Memoirs Of A Polar Bear written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by Portobello Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the floor. I may also have emitted a few hoarse shrieks. Then I lifted my rump to the sky and tucked my head beneath my belly: Now I was a sickle moon, still too young to imagine any danger. Innocent, I opened my anus to the cosmos and felt it in my bowels. A bear, born and raised in captivity, is devastated by the loss of his keeper; another finds herself performing in the circus; a third sits down one day and pens a memoir which becomes an international sensation, and causes her to flee her home. Through the stories of these three bears, Tawada reflects on our own humanity, the ways in which we belong to one another and the ways in which we are formed. Delicate and surreal, Memoirs of a Polar Bear takes the reader into foreign bodies and foreign climes, and immerses us in what the New Yorker has called 'Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness'.
Three Streets Storybook Nd Series
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Three Streets Storybook Nd Series written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in Berlin The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old-fashioned sweets he craves. She worries that sugar's still sugar—but why lecture him, since he's already dead? Then white feathers fall from her head and she seems to be turning into a crane . . . Pure white kittens and a great Russian poet haunt "Majakowskiring": the narrator who reveres Mayakovsky's work is delighted to meet his ghost. And finally, in "Pushkin Allee," a huge Soviet-era memorial of soldiers comes to life—and, "for a scene of carnage everything was awfully well-ordered." Each of these stories opens up into new dimensions the work of this magisterial writer.
The Bridegroom Was A Dog
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Author : Yoko Tawada
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2024-05-02
The Bridegroom Was A Dog written by Yoko Tawada and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog she is intimate with. And when a young man with sharp canine teeth turns up at the schoolteacher's home and declares he's 'here to stay', the romantic - and sexual - relationship that develops intrigues the community, some of whom have suspicions about the man's identity and motives. Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic.