Mother-tongue in modern Japanese literature and criticism: toward a new polylingual poetics

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of "mother-tongue" as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native...

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1. Verfasser: Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Singapore] Palgrave Macmillan [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of "mother-tongue" as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature. Through the insights of recent philosophical/linguistic theories, it reveals the political problems of the notion of "mother-tongue" in literary and linguistic theories and proposes strategies to realize genuinely "exophonic" and "translational" literature beyond the confines of nation. Examining the notion of "mother-tongue" in literature and literary criticism, the author deconstructs the concept and language itself as an apparatus of nation-state in order to imagine alternative literature, genuinely creolized and heterogeneous. Offering a comparative, transnational perspective on the significance of the mother tongue in contemporary literature, this is a key read for students of modern Japanese literature, language and culture, as well as those interested in theories of translation and bilingualism--back cover
Beschreibung:xv, 183 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9811085110
9789811085116

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