Hybrids and mischlinge: translating Anglo-American cultural theory into German

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Cultural theories on hybridity in literature have been negatively influenced by the century-old notion of the Mischling, a repressed hysterical character. This view of the hybrid is so deeply ingrained that contemporary theorists and readers have failed to find ways to advance the discussion. German Jewish writers such as Maxim Biller, Barbara Honigmann, and Esther Dischereit have written hybrid texts on the complex duality of German and Jewish issues, but analysis of these texts has been confounded by the inability to develop a truly contemporary notion of the hybrid.

Analysis, Jews, German, German Jews, Literature, Criticism, Dischereit, Esther, Honigmann, Barbara

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Shoah business: Maxim Biller and the problem of contemporarry German-Jewish literature

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Maxim Biller, unlike most German-Jewish authors with whom he is usually grouped, is a satirist who insists identity need not be limited to ethnic terms. Adopting the approach taken by Theodor Adorno, critics can engage Biller's attack on ethnic essentialism that satirizes exploiters of German-Jewish history.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Portrayals, Critical Essay

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The return of the dead: memory and photography in W.G. Sebald's "Die Ausgewanderten."

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W.G. Sebald's juxtaposition of narrative and photographs in "Die Ausgewanderten" is discussed. Sebald's hybrid novel suggests another kind of cultural memory, where the photographs allow the Holocaust victims to come to life. Their absence is just implied by the text.

Die Ausgewanderten (Book), Sebald, Winfried Georg

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