02492nam 2200409 450 991047688910332120230507233659.0(CKB)4100000010461266(NjHacI)994100000010461266(EXLCZ)99410000001046126620230507d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAs German as Kafka identity and singularity in German literature around 1900 and 2000 /Lene RockLeuven, Belgium :Leuven University Press,2019.1 online resource (370 pages)94-6166-285-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-370).Introduction -- Constitutive outsiders -- Aesthetes between identity and opposition -- City dwellers between difference and indifference -- Family heroes between myth and storytelling -- Conclusion the fallibility of Bildung.Countless literary endeavours by 'new Germans' have come into the spotlight of academic research since the turn of the 21st century. Yet 'minority writing' and its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity are far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. More than a hundred years ago, German-Jewish writers put a clear stamp on German modernism and were intensely engaged in various cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity. 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 similar literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity in either period, while developing an overarching perspective on the 'politics of literature'.German literature20th centuryHistory and criticismGerman literature21st centuryHistory and criticismNationalism in literatureGerman literatureHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.Nationalism in literature.830.900914Rock Lene942247NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476889103321As German as Kafka2126246UNINA