Making German Jewish Literature Anew

Authorship, Memory, and Place

Katja Garloff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06372-4 (ISBN)

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In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France, Russia, or Israel, affords a unique opportunity to analyze the foundational moments of diasporic literature. Making German Jewish Literature Anew is structured around a series of founding gestures: performing authorship, remaking memory, and claiming places. Garloff contends that these founding gestures are literary strategies that reestablish the very possibility of a German Jewish literature several decades after the Holocaust.

Making German Jewish Literature Anew offers fresh interpretations of second-generation authors such as Maxim Biller, Doron Rabinovici, and Barbara Honigmann as well as of third-generation authors, many of whom come from Eastern European and/or mixed-religion backgrounds. These more recent writers include Benjamin Stein, Lena Gorelik, and Katja Petrowskaja. Throughout the book, Garloff asks what exactly marks a given text as Jewish—the author's identity, intended audience, thematic concerns, or stylistic choices—and reflects on existing definitions of Jewish literature.

Katja Garloff is Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College. She is author of Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture and Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers.

Introduction
Part I: Performing Authorship
1. Authorial Self-Fashioning in Second-Generation Writers: Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann
2. Playing with Paratext: Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand
Part II: Remaking Memory
3. Memory and Mobility: The Novels of Doron Rabinovici
4. Memory and Similarity: Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther
Part III: Claiming Places
5. Returning: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann
6. Transitioning: Migration Narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich
7. Arriving: Arrival Stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan Himmelfarb
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2022
Reihe/Serie	German Jewish Cultures
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-06372-8 / 0253063728
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06372-4 / 9780253063724
Zustand	Neuware