A Space of Anxiety: Dislocation and Abjection in Modern German-Jewish LiteratureRodopi, 1999 - 200 Seiten A Space of Anxietyengages with a body of German-Jewish literature that, from the beginning of the century onwards, explores notions of identity and kinship in the context of migration, exile and persecution. The study offers an engaging analysis of how Freud, Kafka, Roth, Drach and Hilsenrath employ, to varying degrees, the travel paradigm to question those borders and boundaries that define the space between the self and the other. A Space of Anxietyargues that from Freud to Hilsenrath, German-Jewish literature emerges from an ambivalent space of enunciation which challenges the great narrative of an historical identity authenticated by an originary past. Inspired by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theories, the author shows that modern German-Jewish writers inhabit a Third Space which poses an alternative to an understanding of culture as a homogeneous tradition based on (national) unity.By endeavouring to explore this third space in examples of modern German-Jewish literature, the volume also aims to contribute to recent efforts to rewriting literary history. In retracing the inherent ambivalence in how German-Jewish literature situates itself in cultural discourse, this study focuses on how this literature subverts received notions of identity and racial boundaries. The study is of interest to students of German literature, German-Jewish literature and Cultural Studies. |
Inhalt
Opposing the Compact Majority | 19 |
Freuds Position of Difference | 28 |
A Narrative of Anxiety? | 34 |
A Story of Adoption and Abjection | 43 |
Dislocation and Abjection | 49 |
Kafka on the Couch? | 55 |
Uncle Jakobs Matter of Discipline | 63 |
Of Animals and Hunger Artist | 71 |
The Case of Albert Drach | 123 |
A Figure of Uncertainty | 137 |
34 | 138 |
49 | 144 |
63 | 150 |
Mastering the Mob | 151 |
75 | 157 |
Humour in Holocaust Fiction | 165 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albert Drach ambivalence Amsterdam/Atlanta analysis André Fischer Anne Fuchs anti-Semitism Arnold Zweig Aschheim assimilation Auschwitz Austrian belief system Bhabha boundaries Bronsen characterised colonial cultural Deborah discourse Eastern European Eastern Jew Edgar Hilsenrath episode example experience female Florian Krobb Frankfurt am Main Franz Kafka Friseur German German-Jewish Literature ghetto fiction Ghetto Writing Gilman Gott große Protokoll Höfler Eds Homi Homi K hunger artist Ibid irony ISBN Jewish Jewish identity Jewry Joseph Roth journey Juden auf Wanderschaft Julia Kristeva Karl Karl's Kristeva Kucku language London male Mann Moses maternal Mendel Singer Menuchim mimicry Mirjam modern mother narrative Nazi novel orthodox Judaism pedlar phobic pogroms Pollunder Powers of Horror protagonist Protokollstil reference Roith Roth's Hiob Schmul Schulz sense sexual shtetl Sigmund Freud social son's stereotype story sublimation symbolic order Thomas Kraft tradition trainee prosecutor University Press Unsentimentale Reise Verschollene Vienna Werke woman women words Zweig Zygmunt Bauman
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - The abject confronts us, on the other hand, and this time within our personal archeology, with our earliest attempts to release the hold of maternal entity even before ex-isting outside of her, thanks to the autonomy of language. It is a violent, clumsy breaking away, with the constant risk of falling back under the sway of a power as securing as it is stifling.
Seite 4 - There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being, directed against a threat that seems to emanate from an exorbitant outside or inside, ejected beyond the scope of the possible, the tolerable, the thinkable.