Beyond the Mother Tongue
The Postmonolingual Condition
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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
'Beyond the Mother Tongue' is an ambitious and deeply fascinating book, written in a clear and accessible style.——Matthew Hart, Columbia 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's Book [is] a particularly timely intervention in debates about multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and integration of immigrants everywhere.——Cultural Critique
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
“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