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

Published Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) Series Kritik, German literary theory and cultural studies Kritik (Detroit, Mich.) 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 Summary Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index Notes Print version record Subject German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Authors, Exiled -- Foreign countries German literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism Psychic trauma in literature. Jewish diaspora in literature. Authors, Exiled. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. German literature German literature -- Foreign countries German literature -- Jewish authors Jewish diaspora in literature Psychic trauma in literature Exilschriftsteller Exilliteratur Trauma Motiv Diaspora Religion, Motiv Literatur Deutsch. Juden. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780814335772 0814335772

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