Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue -- Yoko Tawada, Paperback

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Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue -- Yoko Tawada, PaperbackSHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD IN CRITICISM AND THE GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing indefinitely. How perfect that Yoko Tawada's first essay in

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