Download or read book Portrait of a Tongue written by Yōko Tawada and published by Literary Translation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue is a meditation on language and equivalence between German, Japanese, and English. Wright's experimental approach to the translation draws attention to the presence of the translator and her role in mediating Tawada's original reflection on language for an English-speaking audience.