Ghetto writing
Subtitle: traditional and Eastern Jewry in German-Jewish literature from Heine to Hilsenrath
By: edited by Anne Fuchs and Florian Krobb.
Contributors: Fuchs, Anne.; Krobb, Florian.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- Europe -- Social life and customs.; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- Germany.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature.
Description: "Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, ghetto fiction played an important part in the articulation of a particularly German-Jewish quest for identity. The volume presents some 15 articles by scholars from Scandinavia, Germany, Great Britain, and Ireland, and offers new analyses of ghetto writing by well-known authors such as Heinrich Heine and Joseph Roth, and completely new material on forgotten ghetto writers who deserve to be rediscovered. The articles cover various types of ghetto writing, ranging from ghetto fiction in the tradition of Leopold Kompert and Karl Emil Franzos to diaries, travelogues, autobiography, and even contemporary German hiphop and rap lyrics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.