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Voices from the In-Between: The Poetry of Tawada Yôko

  • In her poems, Tawada constructs liminal speaking subjects – voices from the in-between – which disrupt entrenched binary thought processes. Synthesising relevant concepts from theories of such diverse fields as lyricology, performance studies, border studies, cultural and postcolonial studies, I develop ‘voice’ and ‘in-between space’ as the frameworks to approach Tawada’s multifaceted poetic output, from which I have chosen 29 poems and two verse novels for analysis. Based on the body speaking/writing, sensuality is central to Tawada’s use of voice, whereas the in-between space of cultures and languages serves as the basis for the liminal ‘exophonic’ voices in her work. In the context of cultural alterity, Tawada focuses on the function of language, both its effect on the body and its role in subject construction, while her feminist poetry follows the general development of feminist academia from emancipation to embodiment to queer representation. Her response to and transformation of écriture féminine in her verse novels transcends the concept of the body as the basis of identity, moving to literary and linguistic, plural self-construction instead. While few poems are overtly political, the speaker’s personal and contextual involvement in issues of social conflict reveal the poems’ potential to speak of, and to, the multiply identified citizens of a globalised world, who constantly negotiate physical as well as psychological borders.

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Author:Jasmin Böhm
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-16521
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-db33-4650
Place of publication:Trier
Referee:Andreas Regelsberger
Advisor:Andreas Regelsberger
Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Date of completion:2021/09/02
Publishing institution:Universität Trier
Granting institution:Universität Trier, Fachbereich 2
Date of final exam:0021/04/13
Release Date:2021/09/09
Tag:hybrid; multilingual; poetry; transcultural; transition
GND Keyword:Liminalität; Lyrik; Stimme; Tawada, Yōko; Versroman
Number of pages:488
Institutes:Fachbereich 2
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur
8 Literatur / 89 Andere Literaturen / 890 Literaturen anderer Sprachen
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY-SA: Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 International

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