Yoko Tawada

Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 Introduction: YökoTawada: Voices from EverywherePart 3 Tawada Yöko Does Not ExistPart 4 Nation, Transnation, TranslationChapter 5 Translation, Exophony, OmniphonyChapter 6 Missing Heels, Missing Texts, Wounds in the AlphabetChapter 7 Writing in the Ravine of LanguageChapter 8 YökoTawada's Poetological Reflections on her German Prose WorksPart 9 Bodies and BelongingChapter 10 Tawada's Multilingual Moves: Toward a Transnational ImaginaryChapter 11 Traveling Without Moving: Physical and Linguistic Mobility in Yöko Tawada's ÜberseezungenChapter 12 The Unknown Character: Traces of the Surreal in Yöko Tawada's WritingsPart 13 Language Constructions and Identity ProductionChapter 14 Words and Roots: The Loss of the Familiar in the Works of Yöko TawadaChapter 16 Sign Language: Reading Culture and Identity in "The Gotthard Railway"Chapter 17 Tawada Yöko's Quest for Exophony: Japan and Germany

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.