Books by Elizabeth (Professor of German Boa

Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka relates gender to other facets of identity. The work locates Kafka's images of the male body and undermining of stereotypes such as the New Woman, the Whore, or the assimiliating Jew in the context of sexist, racist, and militaristic ideology in the early twentieth century.

German identity has been a controversial theme throughout the modern age, especially in the wake of unification. This study explores the theme of identity between locality and nation in literature and film from the late nineteenth-century through to the present, locating key novels and films in a wider cultural context of great significance for an understanding of German history.