" Focused on canonical and minority writers working in German in the twentieth century,
Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one …

In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in
large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city–a place where artists from around the …

Summary In Translation as Creative-Critical Practice, Delphine Grass questions the
separation between practice and theory in translation studies through her analysis of …

This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through
translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It …

With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century,
many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in …

Abstract In Yoko Tawada's (Etüden im Schnee, Tübingen, Claudia Gehrke Verlag, 2014)
novel Etüden im Schnee (Memoirs of a Polar Bear), the lives of three generations of polar …

Translation studies and literary studies more broadly are increasingly informed by
materialities-based approaches, yet remain heavily invested in hermeneutic sense. This …

O PINIONS DIVERGE OVER how—if at all—the terms “disaster” and “catastrophe” should be
defined. 1 Despite a by now noticeable ten-dency toward certain interdisciplinary standards …

This article draws upon Tawada's reflections on language and metamorphosis to argue that
the polar bears in Etüden im Schnee (2014) complicate literary animal studies' tendency to …

Wer von ‚Globalisierung ',‚internationaler Vernetzung 'oder gar von der ‚überwundenen
Postmoderne 'spricht, denkt zumeist an die Verlagerung und Mobilität von Arbeitsplätzen …