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Author: Yasemin Yildiz
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780823255757
ISBN 10: 0823255751
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 01 December 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<br> A bold, ambitious, and timely evaluation of philosophical and literary imagination of language. -B. Venkat Mani, Author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk<p><br> A welcome, necessary, and well-crafted addition to a variety of studies in the fields of German-Turkish and German-Jewish studies--studies that increasingly participate in the much broader discussion of modernity/modernism, postmodern identities, globalization, multiculturalism, and ethnicity studies. -Amir Eshel, Stanford University<p><br> Yildiz offers an enlightening argument against the monolingual paradigm that has dominated linguistic thinking since the 18th century, that insists that the mother tongue connects a people to their nation and culture, allowing them to communicate at the deepest level. -Choice<p><br> Beyond the Mother Tongue is an ambitious and deeply fascinating book, written in a clear and accessible style. -Matthew Hart, Columbia University<p><br>
A bold, ambitious, and timely evaluation of philosophical and literary imagination of language. -B. Venkat Mani, Author of Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk A welcome, necessary, and well-crafted addition to a variety of studies in the fields of German-Turkish and German-Jewish studies--studies that increasingly participate in the much broader discussion of modernity/modernism, postmodern identities, globalization, multiculturalism, and ethnicity studies. -Amir Eshel, Stanford University
A welcome, necessary, and well-crafted addition to a variety of studies in the fields of German-Turkish and German-Jewish studies-studies that increasingly participate in the much broader discussion of modernity/modernism, postmodern identities, globalization, multiculturalism, and ethnicity studies. -Amir Eshel, Stanford University Yildiz offers an enlightening argument against the monolingual paradigm that has dominated linguistic thinking since the 18th century... - R.C. Conard, CHOICE 'Beyond the Mother Tongue' is an ambitious and deeply fascinating book, written in a clear and accessible style. -Matthew Hart, Parallax ...Yildiz's Book [is] a particularly timely intervention in debates about multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and integration of immigrants everywhere. -Cultural Critique Yasemin Yildiz has written an award winning monograph that deconstructs the conceptual frameworks of multilingualism and monolingualism that canonical and minority writers have been limited to. -TRANSIT
Author Information
Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the University of Illinois.
