Dystopian novels of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are inherently
concerned with the exploration of lateness in the form of what Frank Kermode calls 'the …

On September 4, 2019, three Vietnamese workers filed a lawsuit against the Hiwada
construction firm for forcing them to carry out decontamination work in the vicinity of the …

This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world
literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern …

In Das Bad, Yoko Tawadacreates a narrative that opens up to the physical materiality of
language and text. Several pages of this short novel present images alongside text …

2 them, constantly in motion. She sings to Atréju from this in-between space, which stands
for her position between his world and the world of the reader in the frame story (and …

In my dissertation, I examine water—watery environments, fluid materialities, bodies of water—
in literature and environmental theory. I argue that literary texts offer creative and …

Es war einmal eine Polarbärenfamilie. So hätte Yoko Tawadas Etüden im Schnee (2014)
anfangen können. Die Schriftstellerin widmet sich jedoch der Exophonie und erzählt im …

Yoko Tawada often foregrounds in her German texts Japanese characters who have either
newly arrived in Germany or are on journeys abroad from Germany. Her fictional travelers …

This dissertation critically investigates how German culture is transculturated in Japan and in
South Korea and then reproduced in a new form of manga/manhwa. These visual …