Exphony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
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Author: Yoko Tawada
Translator: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Publisher: New Directions Books (2025)
In the witty and curious essays collected in Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, Yoko Tawada examines the deep roots and distant branchings of the two languages in which she writes: her native Japanese and nonnative German. She theorizes language as liminal and hybridized, and she forwards a notion of international linguistics and literature that considers the linguistic displacements and emplacements that occur at border-crossings and at page-turnings, in speech, and in dreams.