TAWADA YOKO ON WRITING AND RECB: New Studies in Modern Japan

Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

Introduction, by Doug Slaymaker Chapter 1. "Choosing Between Life and Human," Tawada Yoko Chapter 2. "Theory, Fiction, and the Lightness of Translation: Tawada Y¿kös Schwager in Bordeaux/Borud¿ no gikei,¿ Brett de Bary Chapter 3. ¿Image and the Unity of a Language: Translation and the Indeterminacy of National Language,¿ Naoki Sakai Chapter 4. "Yoko Tawadäs Poetics on the Threshold of Different Writing Systems," Sigrid Wiegel Chapter 5. "Translationalism as poetic principle: Tawadäs translational rewriting of Kafkäs ¿The Metamorphosis,'¿ Christine Ivanovic Chapter 6. "Yoko Tawada Writes Ernst Jandl: Movements of Alphabetic And Sino-Japanese Writing Across Time And Media," Gizem Arslan Chapter 7. "Sprachmutter: The Death of the Mother Tongue," Paul McQuade Chapter 8. ¿Yoko Tawadäs Überseezungen: Feminist Self-Translation and Creative Resistance,¿ Madalina Meirosu Chapter 9. "Laudatio for Uljana Wolf, Erlangener Prize for Poetry As Translation 1980," Tawada Yoko Chapter 10. "Spherical Narrative Temporality in Tawada Y¿kös fiction," Fujiwara Dan Chapter 11. ¿From the Linguistic Mother to the Salt Water Mother: Poetics of Catastrophe in Tawada Y¿kös Eco-critical Writing,¿ Annegret Märten Chapter 12. "The Destruction and Recreation of Japanese Mythology through Yoko Tawada's Literature," Taniguchi Sachiyo Chapter 13. "Words That I Swallowed Whole: The Linguistic Edibility of Yoko Tawadäs Exophonic Writings," Tingting Hui Chapter 14. "Transmigration and Cultural Memory in Yoko Tawadäs Etüden im Schnee 7670," Suzuko Mousel Knott Chapter 15. ¿Staging of Self, Performance of Life: Formation of a Subject in Yuki no rensh¿sei,¿ Tomoko Takeuchi Slutsky Chapter 16. "The hands of bears, the hands of men: Animal Writing in Tawada Y¿kös Tawada Y¿kös Yuki no rensh¿sei," Doug Slaymaker Chapter 17. "The fictional-Reality of actual-Virtuality: Y¿ko Tawadäs Kent¿shi (The Emissary)," Kim Seungyeon