Yasemin Yildiz 
Beyond the Mother Tongue 
The Postmonolingual Condition

Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. Adorno); producing an oeuvre in two separate languages simultaneously (Yoko Tawada); and mixing different languages, codes, and registers within one text (Feridun Zaimoglu).

About the author

Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.