{"product_id":"9780776621272","title":"Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘\u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e’ [‘\u003ci\u003ePorträt einer Zunge\u003c\/i\u003e’, 2002]. Yoko Tawada is a native speaker of Japanese who learned German as an adult.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Tongue \u003c\/i\u003eis a portrait of a German woman—referred to only as P—who has lived in the United States for many years and whose German has become inflected by English. The text is the first-person narrator’s declaration of love for P and for her language, a ‘thinking-out-loud’ about language(s), and a self-reflexive commentary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChantal Wright offers a critical response and a new approach to the translation process by interweaving Tawada’s text and the translator’s dialogue, creating a side-by-side reading experience that encourages the reader to move seamlessly between the two parts. Chantal Wright’s technique models what happens when translators read and responds to calls within Translation Studies for translators to claim visibility, to practice “thick translation”, and to develop their own creative voices. This experimental translation addresses a readership within the academic disciplines of Translation Studies, Germanic Studies, and related fields.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Ottawa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067179417840,"sku":"9780776621272","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780776621272_p0.jpg?v=1763662690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780776621272","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}