Grotesque Ambivalence - Melancholy and Mourning in the Prose Work of Albert Drach (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)

The focus of this volume is the prose work of the Austrian-Jewish writer Albert Drach (1902-1995). The author explores Drach's critique of totalitarian culture by examining his representations of power and powerlessness, identity and difference, along with cultural processes of exclusion. Drawing on areas as diverse as psychoanalysis, the grotesque and post-colonial theory, this study identifies a significant discursive difference between Drach's shorter fictional prose and the Holocaust trilogy. Drach's highly original linguistic dexterity, his much-discussed 'protocol style', offers a sophisticated critique of the relationship between power, insubordination and capitulation. This is the first English language study dedicated to the complex prose of Albert Drach. It is of interest to students and scholars of Austrian literature, German-Jewish literature as well as Exile and Holocaust Studies.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Conditio Judaica
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Mary Cosgrove
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	236
Edition:	Reprint 2012
ISBN-13:	978-3-484-65149-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	3-484-65149-0
Barcode:	9783484651494

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