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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garloff, Katja
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, 2005.
Series:Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.