Ghetto Writing - Traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish Literature from Heine to Hilsenrath (Hardcover, New)

Fresh articles about a much neglected genre, fiction from and about the Jewish ghetto. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries ghetto fiction played an important part in the expression of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume Ghetto Writing takes the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leopold Kompert's collection of ghetto stories Aus dem Ghetto (1848) to fill a gap and give testimony to an important genre that has been unduly silenced in the literary histories of the post-war period. The volume presents some 15 articles by scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland whose contributions offer new analyses of ghetto writing by well known authors such as Heinrich Heine and Joseph Roth, andcompletely new material on forgotten ghetto writers who deserve to be rediscovered, such as Alexander Granach. The articles cover various types of ghetto writing, ranging from ghetto fiction in the tradition of Leopold Kompert and Karl Emil Franzos, to diaries, travelogues, autobiography, and even contemporary German HipHop and Rap lyrics.

General

Imprint:	Camden House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	Anne Fuchs • Florian Krobb
Contributors:	Anne Fuchs • Chris Thornhill • David Horrocks • Ena Pedersen • Eoin Bourke • Florian Krobb • Gabriele Glasenapp • Joachim Beug
Dimensions:	579 x 386 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	239
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-57113-009-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	1-57113-009-8
Barcode:	9781571130099

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