Tawada Yoko

Introduction, by Doug Slaymaker

Chapter 1. "Choosing Between Life and Human," Tawada Yoko

Chapter 2. "Theory, Fiction, and the Lightness of Translation: Tawada Yoko's Schwager in Bordeaux/Borudo 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 Tawada's Poetics on the Threshold of Different Writing Systems," Sigrid Wiegel

Chapter 5. "Translationalism as poetic principle: Tawada's translational rewriting of Kafka's "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 Tawada's 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 Yoko's fiction," Fujiwara Dan

Chapter 11. "From the Linguistic Mother to the Salt Water Mother: Poetics of Catastrophe in Tawada Yoko's 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 Tawada's Exophonic Writings," Tingting Hui

Chapter 14. "Transmigration and Cultural Memory in Yoko Tawada's Etüden im Schnee 7670," Suzuko Mousel Knott

Chapter 15. "Staging of Self, Performance of Life: Formation of a Subject in Yuki no renshusei," Tomoko Takeuchi Slutsky

Chapter 16. "The hands of bears, the hands of men: Animal Writing in Tawada Yoko's Tawada Yoko's Yuki no renshusei," Doug Slaymaker

Chapter 17. "The fictional-Reality of actual-Virtuality: Yoko Tawada's Kentoshi (The Emissary)," Kim Seungyeon