TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rock, Lene
AB  - Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity put a clear stamp on German modernism. 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 a variety of literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity, while developing an overarching perspective on the ‘politics of literature’.
DO  - 10.11116/9789461662842
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006523
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135855497
KW  - German literature
KW  - German modernism
KW  - German-Jewish literature
KW  - minority writing
KW  - Jewish identity
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5df0d278-b868-4c72-8efe-843d60c2c231/9789461662842.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23623
PB  - Leuven University Press
PP  - Leuven
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9789462701786; 9789461662859
TI  - As German as Kafka : Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000
ER  - 
