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Words from Abroad: Trauma and Displacement in Postwar German Jewish Writers »

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Authors: Katja Garloff
ISBN-13: 9780814332450, ISBN-10: 0814332455
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Katja Garloff

Book Synopsis

Examines the responses of German Jewish writers to the geographical and cultural displacement that is one of the lasting consequences of the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Introduction : trauma and displacement1
1The inability to return : German Jewish intellectuals after the Holocaust21
2Peter Weiss's skeptical cosmopolitanism55
3Nelly Sachs and the myth of the "German-Jewish symbiosis"95
4Paul Celan's revisiting of Eastern Europe131
Conclusion : toward the possibility of a diasporic community173

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