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As German as Kafka: Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000

As German as Kafka: Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000

Rock, Lene

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 9462701784
ISBN13: 9789462701786
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Jan 15 2020
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Countless literary endeavours by 'new Germans' have come into the spotlight of academic research since the turn of the 21st century. Yet 'minority writing' and its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity are far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. More than a hundred years ago, German-Jewish writers put a clear stamp on German modernism and were intensely engaged in various cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity. 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 similar literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity in either period, while developing an overarching perspective on the 'politics of literature.'

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