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"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 socially unsanctioned 'mother tongue' about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of fore…
"This book is a study of the workings of a monolingual paradigm and of multilingual attempts to overcome it. It argues that monolingualism--the idea that having just one language is the norm--is a recent invention dating back only to late-eighteenth-century Europe, yet has becom…