Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Japanese Literature Series ”—KULTUR

”—KULTUR

he carries on an imaginary conversation with his daughter Joanna

in "the path traced by a moving point

and several novels by Tsepeneag

who also talk about themselves

Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Japanese Literature Series ”—KULTURWith Flann OBrien widely acknowledged as a subversive genius of early postmodernism, Flore Coulouma places the question of language at the center of his literary identity. Connecting OBriens philosophy of language to the convoluted structure of his writing, Coulouma demonstrates how bilingualism and an ambiguous relation to language inspired OBriens satirical fiction, while developing narrative oppositions such as orality and literacy, truth and