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

by Katja Garloff

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

When Paul Celan was charged with plagiarism in 1960, the ensuing public debate in West Germany threw the poet into a major personal crisis even though most German critics immediately came to his defense. This crisis coincided with a transformative moment in the history of Holocaust...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332455
• ISBN13: 9780814332450
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"