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Cosmopolitan parables : trauma and responsibility in contemporary Germany / David D. Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, David D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Cosmopolitanism in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Cosmopolitan Parables explores the global rise of the heavily debated concept of cosmopolitanism from a unique German literary perspective.Since the early 1990s, the notion of cosmopolitanism has acquired a new salience because of an alarming rise in nationalism, xenophobia, migration, international war, and genocide.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Toward a new consciousness of the world
- Divided cosmopolitanisms
- The traumas of unification
- In the whirlwind of melancholy
- Columbian zombies, or the ghosts of modernity : Hans Christoph Buch's The speech of dead Columbus on the last day of judgment
- Confessions of a plagiarist : Michael Kruger's Himmelfarb
- Militant melancholy : W.G. Sebald's The rings of Saturn
- Conclusion. Against the globalization of memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3527-2
- OCLC:
- 990435475
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