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The infrahuman : animality in modern Jewish literature /
Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity. The Infrahuman explores a little-known aspect in major works of Jewish literature from the period preceding World War II, in which Jewish writers in German, Hebrew, and Yiddish employed fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Between figure and creature
- Life in the valley: the Jewish dog in Heinrich Heine's Prinzessin Sabbat
- A radical advocacy: suffering Jews and animals in S.Y. Abramovitsh's di Kliatshe
- Into the bowels of the earth: prophecy and animality in the poetry of Hayim Nachman Bialik and Uri Zvi Greenberg
- At home in a distorted life: the dog as a constellation in the work of Franz Kafka
- After the Holocaust: responses to the infrahuman in the works of S.Y. Agnon and Paul Celan.