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New essays providing an up-to-date picture of the engagement of
artists, philosophers, and critics with Kafka's work. The topic of
"Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of
artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with
Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the
engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and
represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot,
Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays
contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with
this topic. An essay on major trends in current Kafka criticism
provides background for several essays on novelists, philosophers,
and critics whose relationship to Kafka is not very well known. A
section devoted to Kafka from an Israeli perspective includes
artists not commonly known in the US or Europe (Ya'acov Shteinberg,
Hezi Leskly, Sayed Kashua), as well as an essay on the recent trial
in Israel regarding the fate of Kafka's literary legacy. A final
section addresses important contemporary approaches to Kafka in
film studies, animal studies, the graphic novel, and in postmodern
culture and counterculture. Contributors: Iris Bruce, Stanley
Corngold, AmirEngel, Mark H. Gelber, Sander L. Gilman, Caroline
Jessen, Tali Latowicki, Michael G. Levine, Ido Lewit, Vivian Liska,
Alana Sobelman. Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German at
McMaster University. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor and
Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at
Ben-Gurion University.
"Kafka and Cultural Zionism" is an illumination of the individual
Jewish identity of this major modernist German author. Through a
thorough examination of Kafka's life, his influences, and his
writings, Iris Bruce makes a case for Kafka's interest in Zionism
and demonstrates the presence of Jewish themes and motifs in
Kafka's literary works. In recognizing this essential part of
Kafka's individual voice, Bruce hopes to provide a new perspective
on Kafka and his writings that allows the reader to find the humor,
playfulness, rebelliousness, and challenge that can be overlooked
if the reader expects to find a Kafka who is disengaged from his
ethnic and cultural identity, as well as the politics of his age.
Outstanding Academic Title, "Choice Magazine"
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