Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka - Couverture rigide

Jacobs, Joela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0253071976 ISBN 13 : 9780253071972

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's Reichs, the genre of die Groteske, or the German literary grotesque, sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers with its irreverent comedy and critique. At the same time, its authors were ruthlessly censored for their satire of society, leaving die Groteske virtually unknown today.

As the first full-length study of the genre, Animal, Vegetal, Marginal recovers this short prose form, which draws on the perspectives of marginalized animals, plants, and individuals to challenge what it means to be human. Author Joela Jacobs traces the development of the genre and its variations from the work of Oskar Panizza, Hanns Heinz Ewers, and Salomo Friedlaender to Franz Kafka.

Animal, Vegetal, Marginal shows how marginalized and nonhuman voices mounted resistance against the rise of the biopolitical structures underpinning nationalism, racism, and antisemitism in the decades leading up to the Second World War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joela Jacobs is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research engages with plants, animals, the environment, Jewish identity, science, gender, and sexuality in Germanophone literature and culture since the nineteenth century. She cofounded and maintains the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253071976
• ISBN 13: 9780253071972
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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