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Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, OEzdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines similar literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity in either period, while developing an overarching perspective on the 'politics of literature.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003cbr\u003e Constitutive outsiders \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.1 Ambivalences of \u003ci\u003eKultur \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAufklärung \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eConstructions of German identity \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKultur \u003c\/i\u003eversus \u003ci\u003eZivilisation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 “Trapped by the image of a rejected self ”—Jews in Germany, German Jews \u003cbr\u003e Emancipation and acculturation (1770–1880) \u003cbr\u003e Modern anti-Semitism and Jewish dissimilation (1880–1933)\u003cbr\u003e The ambivalence of assimilation 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.3 A reluctant country of immigration \u003cbr\u003e From emigration to immigration \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKultur \u003c\/i\u003ein the aftermath of non-policy: \u003ci\u003eMultiKulti\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLeitkultur\u003c\/i\u003e—‘Deutschland schafft sich ab’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.4 Literature, identity, and singularity \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003e Aesthetes between identity and opposition 67\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.1 The authenticity paradox—Writing between identity and opposition \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.2 The aesthete’s retreat: Arthur Schnitzler’s \u003ci\u003eFräulein Else \u003c\/i\u003e(1924) versus Navid Kermani’s \u003ci\u003eKurzmitteilung \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) \u003cbr\u003e The ‘value’ of cultural difference: Arthur Schnitzler and Navid Kermani \u003cbr\u003e A conflict of codes: ‘aesthetics of opposition’ versus ‘aesthetics of identity’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.3 The aesthete’s awakening: Beer-Hofmann’s \u003ci\u003eDer Tod Georgs \u003c\/i\u003e(1900) versus Zaimoglu’s \u003ci\u003eLiebesbrand \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) 102\u003cbr\u003e Jewish aesthete and romantic rebel: Richard Beer-Hofmann and Feridun Zaimoglu \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRealitätsablehnung \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; experiences of finitude \u003cbr\u003e Aesthetics of becoming—The ambivalent rhetoric of blood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003e City dwellers between difference and indifference \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.1 Images of the city: emancipatory visions and spatialized difference \u003cbr\u003e Berlin: image of an unsettled national identity \u003cbr\u003e Indifference to difference \u003cbr\u003e The city as a site of Jewish self-definition \u003cbr\u003e Urban stereotype and spatialized difference \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.2 The failure of exemplarity—‘Figures of immanence’:Ludwig Jacobowski’s \u003ci\u003eWerther, der Jude \u003c\/i\u003e(1892) versus Terezia Mora’s \u003ci\u003eAlle Tage \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) \u003cbr\u003e Exemplarity, identification, alienation \u003cbr\u003e ‘Figures of immanence’: the atomic individual versus the \u003ci\u003eLeerstelle \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMetropolitan milieus: ‘the law of the proper’ versus \u003ci\u003eVerletzbarkeit \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.3 Disoriented city dwellers—Figures of ‘distanced proximity’:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranz Hessel’s \u003ci\u003eSpazieren in Berlin \u003c\/i\u003e(1929) versus Emine Sevgi Ozdamar’s “Der Hof im Spiegel” (2001) \u003cbr\u003e Reading the city \u003cbr\u003e Disoriented\/dis-Oriented city dwellers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003e Family heroes between myth and storytelling \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.1 Writing in the shadow of an empire \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.2 Family heroes redefined: Joseph Roth’s \u003ci\u003eRadetzkymarsch \u003c\/i\u003e(1932) versus Dimitre Dinev’s \u003ci\u003eEngelszungen \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStorytellers between empires and nations:Joseph Roth and Dimitre Dinev \u003cbr\u003e “Listening to the same story”—Heroic grandfathers and the power of fiction \u003cbr\u003e “Against the confines of the image”—Un-\/antiheroic grandsons and the power of storytelling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.3 “Diaspora’s children”—Heroics of endurance and hope:\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Roth’s \u003ci\u003eHiob \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) versus Zsusza Bank’s \u003ci\u003eDer Schwimmer \u003c\/i\u003e(2002) \u003cbr\u003e Between East and West—Between pathos and hope: Joseph Roth and Zsuzsa Bank \u003cbr\u003e Communities of violence—Communities of silence \u003cbr\u003e Allowing something to be said—Hope emerging from silence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e The fallibility of \u003ci\u003eBildung \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Constitutive outsiders \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Aesthetes between identity and opposition \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. City dwellers between difference and indifference \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Family heroes between myth and storytelling \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The fallibility of \u003ci\u003eBildung \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047163887959,"sku":"9789462701786","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789462701786.jpg?v=1750970507","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/as-german-as-kafka-identity-and-singularity-in-german-literature-around-1900-and-2000-9789462701786","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}