Tawada is known for Where Europe Begins and Facing the Bridge, works linked to her homeland of Japan and her adopted country, Germany. Inspired by a March 2004 symposium held at the University
of Kentucky, these 12 papers remark on Tawada's fiction, poetry, literary criticism and essays in Japanese, and German. Topics include why "Tawada Yoko" does not exist by Yoko Tawada herself,
translation and its relation to exophony and omniphony, Tawada's work as it appears in the spaces between Japanese and German, poetic reflections in Tawada's work, the transnational imaginary
in Tawada's multilingual moves, physical and linguistic mobility in Tawada's �berseezungen, traces of the surreal in Tawada's writings, the loss of the familiar in Tawada, culture and identity
as found in such devices as signs in Tawada's "The Gotthard Railway," and Tawada's quest for exophony within the contexts of Japan and Germany. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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