Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere (AsiaWorld) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739122738 ISBN 13: 9780739122730

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2007

Synopsis

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 that 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. This is an essential collection for anyone with an interest in this important young writer.

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Review

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

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

Synopsis

Tawada is known for Where Europe Begins and Facing the Bridge, works linked to her homeland of Japan and her adopted country, Germany. Inspired by a March 2004 symposium held at the University of Kentucky, these 12 papers remark on Tawada's fiction, poetry, literary criticism and essays in Japanese, and German. Topics include why "Tawada Yoko" does

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739122738
• ISBN 13: 9780739122730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Slaymaker Douglas