As German as Kafka : Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000
Rock, Lene
As German as Kafka : Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000 - Leuven Leuven University Press 2019 - 1 electronic resource (370 p.)
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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’.
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English
9789461662842 9789462701786; 9789461662859
10.11116/9789461662842 doi
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Migration, immigration & emigration
The self, ego, identity, personality
German literature German modernism German-Jewish literature minority writing Jewish identity
As German as Kafka : Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000 - Leuven Leuven University Press 2019 - 1 electronic resource (370 p.)
Open Access
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’.
Creative Commons
English
9789461662842 9789462701786; 9789461662859
10.11116/9789461662842 doi
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Migration, immigration & emigration
The self, ego, identity, personality
German literature German modernism German-Jewish literature minority writing Jewish identity