When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish LiteratureIndiana University Press, 8 jun 2009 - 239 pagina's Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups. Vivian Liska shows that, for Kafka and others, this ambivalence inspired innovative modes of writing which, while unmasking the oppressive cohesion of communal groupings, also configured original and uncommon communities. Interlinked close readings of works by German-Jewish writers such as Kafka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger, and Robert Schindel illuminate the ways in which literature can subvert, extend, or reconfigure established visions of communities. Liska's rich and astute analysis uncovers provocative attitudes and insights on a subject of continuing controversy. |
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Uncommon Communities | 1 |
Part 1 Kafkas Communities | 13 |
1 When Kafka Says We | 15 |
Kafkas Speech on the Yiddish Language | 26 |
Kafka and the Feminine | 34 |
Part 2 Revisiting the Common Ground | 45 |
Theodor Herzls Late Philosophical Tales | 47 |
Biblical Women in Else LaskerSchülers Hebrew Ballads | 65 |
Part 4 C ontentious Commemorations | 139 |
The Gruppe 47 and Ilse Aichingers Poetics of Resistance | 141 |
Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary AustrianJewish Literature | 151 |
Robert Menasses The Expulsion from Hell | 160 |
Part 5 Kafkas Companions | 171 |
Paul Celan and Kafka | 173 |
Ilse Aichinger and Kafka | 193 |
15 The Gap between Hannah Arendt and Kafka | 207 |
Else LaskerSchülers Poetics of Redemption | 79 |
Part 3 Communities of Fate | 87 |
Paul Celans In Front of a Candle | 89 |
A Motif in Paul Celan | 108 |
Nelly Sachss Choirs after Midnight | 120 |
Notes | 213 |
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