Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Performing Authorship. Authorial self-fashioning in second-generation writers : Maxim Biller, Esther Dischereit, and Barbara Honigmann -- Playing with paratext : Benjamin Stein's Die Leinwand -- Part II: Remaking Memory. Memory and mobility : the novels of Doron Rabinovici -- Memory and similarity : Katja Petrowskaja's Vielleicht Esther -- Part III: Claiming Places. Returning : diasporic place-making in Barbara Honigmann -- Transitioning : migration narratives in Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich -- Arriving : arrival stories in Lena Gorelik, Dmitrij Kapitelman, and Jan Himmelfarb -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"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 the 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 Barbar Honigmann as well as third-generation writers, many of whom come from Eastern European 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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