| Description |
1 online resource (370 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Constitutive outsiders -- Aesthetes between identity and opposition -- City dwellers between difference and indifference -- Family heroes between myth and storytelling -- Conclusion the fallibility of Bildung |
| Summary |
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." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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German literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Group identity -- Germany
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Group identity in literature.
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Literary Criticism / European / German.
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Literary Criticism.
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Fiction / Literary.
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German literature
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Group identity
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Group identity in literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789461662842 |
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946166284X |
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9789461662859 |
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9461662858 |
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