Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers Contributor(s): Garloff, Katja (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814332455 ISBN-13: 9780814332450 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $52.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - History | Europe - Germany |
Dewey: 830.989 |
LCCN: 2004022775 |
Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.32" W x 9.42" (1.03 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
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Publisher Description: 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. |