{"product_id":"exophony-voyages-outside-the-mother-tongue-9780349704197","title":"Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Yoko Tawada\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Tawada's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003estrange, exquisite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon Tawada's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMemoirs of a Polar Bear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you formed by your mother tongue?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this playful and daring interrogation of language, the globally acclaimed Yoko Tawada reveals the poetics, politics and potential of existing outside one's mother tongue. From Senegalese writers discarding colonial-enforced French to the increasing use of loan words in her native Japanese, Tawada deconstructs the ways in which the world shapes and is shaped by languages: their hidden systems of power, their sweeping histories and, ultimately, the people who claim, reject, adapt or romanticise them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eExophony \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis an invitation to revel in the possibilities that emerge when we dare to seek beyond the familiar - and a sharp, incisive series of essays in which Tawada's erudite wit and multidimensional curiosity sing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847732387991,"sku":"9780349704197","price":260.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780349704197.webp?v=1769296995","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exophony-voyages-outside-the-mother-tongue-9780349704197","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}