Words from abroad : trauma and displacement in postwar German Jewish writers / Katja Garloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garloff, Katja.

Series:

Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)

Kritik

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Jewish authors.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Authors, Exiled--Foreign countries.

Authors, Exiled.

German literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

German literature--Foreign countries.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Jewish diaspora in literature.

Foreign countries.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0814332455

OCLC:

56608035