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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790206303321

Autore

Garloff Katja

Titolo

Words from abroad [[electronic resource] ] : trauma and displacement in postwar German Jewish writers / / Katja Garloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich., : Wayne State University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8143-3577-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Kritik, German literary theory and cultural studies

Disciplina

830.9/8924/009045

Soggetti

German literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

German literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Authors, Exiled - Foreign countries

German literature - Foreign countries - History and criticism

Psychic trauma in literature

Jewish diaspora in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Trauma and displacement -- The inability to return: German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust -- Peter Weiss's skeptical cosmopolitanism -- Nelly Sachs and the myth of the "German-Jewish symbiosis" -- Paul Celan's revisiting of Eastern Europe -- Toward the possibility of a diasporic community.