LEADER 04770nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910962748903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780814335772 010 $a0814335772 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151092 035 $a(OCoLC)777595292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533478 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000694637 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11481356 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000694637 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10686025 035 $a(PQKB)10226760 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416423 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19730 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533478 035 $a(OCoLC)923510515 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31349240 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31349240 035 $a(Perlego)4160469 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151092 100 $a20040928d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWords from abroad $etrauma and displacement in postwar German Jewish writers /$fKatja Garloff 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDetroit, Mich. $cWayne State University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aKritik, German literary theory and cultural studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780814332450 311 08$a0814332455 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index. 327 $aTrauma 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. 330 8 $aExamines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust. 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. Along with the works of Paul Celan, Words from Abroad examines selected German Jewish writers such as Peter Weiss and Nelly Sachs. The study of these authors is framed by theoretical reflections on the play of distance and proximity in German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust, including Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Ame?ry, and Gu?nther Anders. Drawing on postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, trauma theory, and psychoanalytical theory, author Katja Garloff offers an original and nuanced reading of the way in which these writers, in the wake of the Holocaust, experienced and variously created a vision of dispersion as both traumatic and productive. Words from Abroad is an important tool in investigating the works of these German Jewish writers and thinkers, but it is also a contribution to the interdisciplinary scholarship on trauma and displacement itself. 410 0$aKritik (Detroit, Mich.) 606 $aGerman literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, Exiled$zForeign countries 606 $aGerman literature$zForeign countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPsychic trauma in literature 606 $aJewish diaspora in literature 615 0$aGerman literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, Exiled 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPsychic trauma in literature. 615 0$aJewish diaspora in literature. 676 $a830.9/8924/009045 700 $aGarloff$b Katja$01127055 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962748903321 996 $aWords from abroad$94361406 997 $aUNINA