
The Translated Jew
German Jewish Culture Outside the Margins
Leslie Morris(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2018
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8101-3764-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Translated Jew brings together an eclectic set of literary and visual texts to reimagine 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, The Translated Jew challenges national literary historiography and redraws the maps by which transnational Jewish culture and identity must be read. This book 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, Helene Cixous, Ulrike Mohr, Daniel Blaufuks, Paul Celan, Raymond Federman, and Rose Auslaender. 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 U.S. and Europe. The insistence on the polylingualism of any single language and the multidirectionality of Jewishness are at the very center of The Translated Jew.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 black & white images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-3764-6 (9780810137646)
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09/2018
1st Edition
Northwestern University Press
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Person
Leslie Morris is an associate professor of German in the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Languages at the University of Minnesota.