Del 5 i serien Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought

German Jewish Literature after 1990

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Edited volume tracing the development of a new generation of German Jewish writers, offering fresh interpretations of individual works, and probing the very concept of "German Jewish literature."The 1990 reunification of Germany gave rise to a new generation of writers who write in German, identify as both German and Jewish, and often also sustain cultural affiliations with places such as Russia, Azerbaijan, or Israel. This edited volume traces the development of this new literature into the present, offers fresh interpretations of individual works, and probes the very concept of "German Jewish literature." A central theme is the transformation ofmemory at a time when the Holocaust is moving into greater historical distance while the influx of new immigrant groups to Germany brings other past trauma into view. The volume's ten original essays by scholars from Europe and the US reframe the debates about Holocaust memory and contemporary German culture. The concluding interviews with authors Mirna Funk and Olga Grjasnowa offer a glimpse into the future of German Jewish literature.Contributors: Luisa Banki, Caspar Battegay, Helen Finch, Mirna Funk, Katja Garloff, Olga Grjasnowa, Elizabeth Loentz, Andree Michaelis-König, Agnes Mueller, Jessica Ortner, Jonathan Skolnik, Stuart Taberner.Katja Garloff is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. Agnes Mueller is the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of South Carolina.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-28
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Antal sidor272
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781640140219

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HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds. JESSICA ORTNER is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark. STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Introduction - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerPART I. SELF-REFLECTION in FIRST- and SECOND-GENERATION AUTHORSWhat Is a German Jewish Author? Authorial Self-Fashioning in Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann - Katja Garloff(Non-Jewish) German Constructions of (German) Jewish Writing in the Late Work of Günter Grass, Martin Walser, and Christa Wolf - Stuart TabernerRevenge, Restitution, Ressentiment: Edgar Hilsenrath's and Ruth Klüger's Late Writings as Holocaust Metatestimony - Helen FinchPART II. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES and DIVERSIFICATION of HOLOCAUST MEMORYThe German Jewish Migrant Novel after 1990: Politics of Memory and Multidirectional Writing - Jessica OrtnerBeyond Negative Symbiosis: The Displacement of Holocaust Trauma and Memory in Alina Bronksy's Scherbenpark and Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt - Elizabeth LoentzMemory without Borders? Migrant Identity and the Legacy of the Holocaust in Olga Grjasnowa's Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt - Jonathan SkolnikMultilingualism and Jewishness in Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther - Andree Michaelis-KönigPART III. NEW THEMES and DIRECTIONS in RECENT GERMAN JEWISH LITERATUREActuality and Historicity in Mirna Funk's Winternähe - Luisa BankiGerman Psycho: The Language of Depression in Oliver Polak's Der jüdische Patient - Caspar BattegayReligion and the Holocaust: Imre Kertész, Benjamin Stein, and Kaddish for a Friend - Agnes MuellerPART IV. CODA: INTERVIEWS with TWO CONTEMPORARY GERMAN JEWISH WRITERSInterview with Olga Grjasnowa - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerInterview with Mirna Funk - Katja Garloff and Agnes MuellerBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[O]ffers a remarkably broad and diverse overview of recent developments in German Jewish discourse and features high-quality articles that indicate where German Jewish writing might be headed over the next couple of years. . . . [E]ssential reading for all those wishing to acquaint themselves with the latest trends in contemporary German Jewish discourse, particularly in relation to the Eastern European turn and the so-called third generation. It promises to reinvigorate debates about German Jewish writing, and it is to be hoped that it will give rise to many more exciting research and publication projects.