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Kafka’s Blues : Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic / Mark Christian Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Mark Christian, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Race in literature.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- German literature--Czech Republic--Prague--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 172 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Kafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English).
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Becoming negro
- Being negro
- Beyond negro
- Negro's machine
- Negro's manumission
- Negro's martyrdom
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3287-7
- OCLC:
- 951069915
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