Sebald's Jews - The Jew as Trope in the Narrative Fiction of W. G. Sebald

Explores W. G. Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness to provide new insights into controversial tropes and stereotypes in his narrative prose.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Sebald's Works
Introduction: The Sebald Paradox
1. The Wandering Jew in The Emigrants
2. The Wandering Jew in Austerlitz
3. The Jew as Other
4. The Inauthentic Jew
5. The Sickly Jew
Conclusion: Sebald and Holocaust Fiction
Bibliography
Index

About the author

GILLIAN SELIKOWITZ holds a PhD in German Literature from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Summary

Explores W. G. Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness to provide new insights into controversial tropes and stereotypes in his narrative prose.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Gillian Selikowitz, Dr. Gillian Selikowitz, Gillian Selikowitz
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9781640141827
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-182-7
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies