Pines The Infrahuman

Animality in Modern Jewish Literature
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7068-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pines, Noam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Between Figure and Creature

1. Life in The Valley: The Jewish Dog in Heinrich Heine’s “Prinzessin Sabbat”

2. A Radical Advocacy: Suffering Jews and Animals in S. Y. Abramovitsh’s Di Kliatshe

3. Into the Bowels of the Earth: Prophecy and Animality in the Poetry of Hayim Nachman Bialik
and Uri Zvi Greenberg

4. At Home in a Distorted Life: The Dog as a Constellation in the Work of Franz Kafka

5. After the Holocaust: Responses to the Infrahuman in the Works of S. Y. Agnon and Paul Celan

Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noam Pines is Assistant Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.