Helen O’Sullivan is currently lecturing in German at Trinity College Dublin where she gained her PhD on language learner narrative in 2009 and her M.Phil in German Literature and Language Pedagogy in 2005. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Mediaeval Languages from Cambridge University. Since 2002 she has taught in English as a Foreign Language, Adult Literacy, German Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and the History of Ideas. Her main research interests lie in intercultural communication and intercultural literature.

• AcknowledgementsChapter One: Mündigkeit in the Contemporary Context: A ProlegomenonChapter Two: On Language Memoir? A Review of the Secondary LiteratureChapter Three: Conceptualizing the Language LearnerChapter Four: Linguistics and Literature: Methodological ConsiderationsChapter Five: Mündigkeit and the Linguistic Construction of the SubjectChapter Six: Loss of Mündigkeit in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutter ZungeChapter Seven: The Use of Language in Mutter ZungeChapter Eight: Autonomy Abroad: Metaphors of Mündigkeit in Language Learner Narrative Chapter Nine: Language Play and Metamündigkeit in Language Learner NarrativeChapter Ten: Concluding ThoughtsAppendices BibliographyIndex

Helen O’Sullivan is currently lecturing in German at Trinity College Dublin where she gained her PhD on language learner narrative in 2009 and her M.Phil in German Literature and Language Pedagogy in 2005. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Mediaeval Languages from Cambridge University. Since 2002 she has taught in English as a Foreign Language, Adult Literacy, German Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and the History of Ideas. Her main research interests lie in intercultural communication and intercultural literature.

• AcknowledgementsChapter One: Mündigkeit in the Contemporary Context: A ProlegomenonChapter Two: On Language Memoir? A Review of the Secondary LiteratureChapter Three: Conceptualizing the Language LearnerChapter Four: Linguistics and Literature: Methodological ConsiderationsChapter Five: Mündigkeit and the Linguistic Construction of the SubjectChapter Six: Loss of Mündigkeit in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutter ZungeChapter Seven: The Use of Language in Mutter ZungeChapter Eight: Autonomy Abroad: Metaphors of Mündigkeit in Language Learner Narrative Chapter Nine: Language Play and Metamündigkeit in Language Learner NarrativeChapter Ten: Concluding ThoughtsAppendices BibliographyIndex

Helen O’Sullivan is currently lecturing in German at Trinity College Dublin where she gained her PhD on language learner narrative in 2009 and her M.Phil in German Literature and Language Pedagogy in 2005. She holds an M.A. in Modern and Mediaeval Languages from Cambridge University. Since 2002 she has taught in English as a Foreign Language, Adult Literacy, German Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and the History of Ideas. Her main research interests lie in intercultural communication and intercultural literature.

• AcknowledgementsChapter One: Mündigkeit in the Contemporary Context: A ProlegomenonChapter Two: On Language Memoir? A Review of the Secondary LiteratureChapter Three: Conceptualizing the Language LearnerChapter Four: Linguistics and Literature: Methodological ConsiderationsChapter Five: Mündigkeit and the Linguistic Construction of the SubjectChapter Six: Loss of Mündigkeit in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutter ZungeChapter Seven: The Use of Language in Mutter ZungeChapter Eight: Autonomy Abroad: Metaphors of Mündigkeit in Language Learner Narrative Chapter Nine: Language Play and Metamündigkeit in Language Learner NarrativeChapter Ten: Concluding ThoughtsAppendices BibliographyIndex