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Tawada Yoko - On Writing and Rewriting (Paperback)
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Tawada Yoko - On Writing and Rewriting (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
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This collection draws from scholars across different languages to
address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko,
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, Yoko 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.
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