Exophony

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Tawada famously writes in both Japanese and German, but her interest in language reaches beyond any mere dichotomy. How perfect that Tawada's first essay collection in English dives deep into her lifelong fascination with the possibilities opened up by cross-hybridizing languages. The accent here, as in her fiction, is the art of drawing closer to the world through defamiliarization.

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