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Words from Abroad - Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers (Hardcover, New)
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Words from Abroad - Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers (Hardcover, New)
Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
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When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing
public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal
crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his
defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the
history of Holocaust remembrance, its first generational
reimagining in the wake of a number of highly publicized criminal
trials. Words from Abroad takes its lead from this disjunction
between public ritual and private crisis to chart the emergence of
a new literary diaspora, examining German Jewish writers who were
dislocated in the course of World War II and began rewriting their
own displacement more than a decade after the war. The idea of
diaspora had ceased to be a constructive element of Jewish culture
in Germany during the nineteenth-century process of emancipation
and assimilation, though this book argues that it becomes crucial
in articulating the possibility of German Jewish identity after the
Holocaust. Along with the works of Paul Celan, Words from Abroad
examines selected German Jewish writers such as Peter Weiss and
Nelly Sachs. The study of these authors is framed by theoretical
reflections on the play of distance and proximity in German Jewish
intellectuals after the Holocaust, including Theodor W. Adorno,
Jean Amery, and Gunther Anders. Drawing on postcolonial theory,
diaspora studies, trauma theory, and psychoanalytical theory,
author Katja Garloff offers an original and nuanced reading of the
way in which these writers, in the wake of the Holocaust,
experienced and variously created a vision of dispersion as both
traumatic and productive. Words from Abroad is an important tool in
investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and
thinkers, but it is also a contribution to the interdisciplinary
scholarship on trauma and displacement itself.
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Imprint: |
Wayne State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series |
Release date: |
September 2005 |
First published: |
September 2005 |
Authors: |
Katja Garloff
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
240 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8143-3245-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
From 1900
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LSN: |
0-8143-3245-5 |
Barcode: |
9780814332450 |
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