As German as Kafka

by Rock, Lene

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Title Statements

Full title :As German as Kafka.

Summary

Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity put a clear stamp on German modernism. This book is the first to unfold literary parallels between these two riveting periods in German cultural history. Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, Özdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines a variety of literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity, while developing an overarching perspective on the 'politics of literature'.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Leuven University Press
Place of Publication:Leuven
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789461662842, 946166284X, 9789461662859, 9461662858, 9789462701786, 9462701784
DOI:10.11116/9789461662842
oclc:on1135855497
LC Classification:Internet Access

Subjects

German literature German modernism German-Jewish literature Jewish identity Literary studies: fiction, novelists & … Literary studies: general Migration, immigration & emigration Minority writing The self, ego, identity, personality