Dynamics of Alterity
Texts by Yoko Tawada in the Perspective of Studies on Difference
By (author) Julia Sowacka
Hardback (Published)
(April 2026)
ISBN: 9783847119609
6.34 x 9.33 inches
Price: $69.00
In stock
Nomadic Narratives, Water, and Transformations: The Dynamics of Alterity in Yoko Tawada’s Literature
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of Yoko Tawada’s German-language works and selected translations from Japanese, approached through the perspective of studies on difference. Drawing on interdisciplinary methodologies, including poststructuralism and posthumanism, it explores the dynamics of alterity – nomadic narratives, water, transformation, transgression and migration – as key motifs in Tawada’s novels, essays, poetry, and plays. The dynamics of alterity permeate binary entanglements of the external and internal worlds, they do not reproduce the clash of thesis and antithesis or affirm negativity. They offer a way to step outside the limitations of dichotomous logic.
- By (author) Julia Sowacka
Other Titles in this Series
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Listening to the Swan Song
More-than-Human Beings and Sounds in Literature and Culture Through the Ages
Similar Books
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Cahiers de l’Association internationale des études françaises
J. M. G. Le Clézio - Enseigner les littératures francophones aujourd’hui - Récit de soi et expérience de l’illusion (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Volume 78
Cahiers de littérature française
Les Métamorphoses du texte. Enjeux intertextuels et transpositions visuelles
Volume 25
Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes – Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
Volume 51
Cahiers de sémiotique des cultures
Ponctuation et sens. Nouvelles perspectives / Punctuation and meaning. New perspectives
Volume 6
CompLit
Myth, Folklore and Magic in European Literatures. Critical and Contemporary Reconfigurations
Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
La Lettre clandestine
La littérature philosophique clandestine, ses éditeurs et ses éditions
Volume 34
La Revue des lettres modernes
« Afin que rien ne meure ». Le deuil dans et de l’œuvre de Marguerite Duras
Volume 9
