| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) |
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Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory
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Cultural expressions of World War II.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The translated J/Je/Juif/Jude/Jew -- Translating the textual/digital//sacred/provisional -- Reading tangentially -- Untoward : Jewish subjectivity at the margins -- Translating place/placing translation -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
The Translated Jew brings together an eclectic set of literary and visual texts to re-imagine the transnational potential for German Jewish culture in the twenty-first century. Departing from scholarship that has located the German Jewish text as an object that can be defined geographically and historically, Leslie Morris challenges national literary historiography and redraws the maps by which transnational Jewish culture and identity must be read.Morris explores the myriad acts of translation, actual and metaphorical, through which Jewishness leaves its traces, taking as a given the always provisional nature of Jewish text and Jewish language. Although the focus is on contemporary German Jewish literary cultures,The Translated Jew also turns its attention to a number of key visual and architectural projects by American, British, and French artists and writers, including W. G. Sebald, Anne Blonstein, Hélène Cixous, Ulrike Mohr, Daniel Blaufuks, Paul Celan, Raymond Federman, and Rose Ausländer. In thus realigning German Jewish culture with European and American Jewish culture and post-Holocaust aesthetics, this book explores the circulation of Jewishness between the United States and Europe. The insistence on the polylingualism of any single language and the multi-directionality of Jewishness are at the very center ofThe Translated Jew. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.
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Germany -- Civilization -- Jewish influences.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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American literature |
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American literature -- Jewish authors |
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Civilization -- Jewish influences |
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German literature |
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German literature -- Jewish authors |
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Jews -- Identity |
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Germany https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morris, Leslie, 1958- Translated Jew. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018 (DLC) 2018020137 |
| ISBN |
9780810137653 (electronic bk.) |
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0810137658 (electronic bk.) |
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9780810137639 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780810137646 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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081013764X |
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