Books in the Texts and Contexts series

Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts.

Introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. This book considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on popular texts including Dickens' "Oliver Twist", Gaskell's "North and South" and Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".

Debunks a myth: that once upon a time, there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. This book argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be German, with little help from and often against the open hostility of Germans.

A comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. It highlights the author's individualities with sustained attention to the ways in which they all reflect upon their identities as Jews and women. Combining careful research with inspired synthesis, it provides a work for students of German, Jewish, and women's writings.

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) has emerged as one of the most influential poets of the century. This title explores and participates in the relentless process of Trakl's writing.

Focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. This title reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference.

Examining Paul de Man's work from the 1960s, this book concentrates on his interest in Romantic literature and criticism. Following de Man's strong readings of the works of Holderlin, Rousseau, and Wordsworth, it connects his interpretations of these and other writers with his earlier critical works and his later deconstructive writings.

A collection of interviews that showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century. It discusses the effects of the American Indian Movement, religious freedom, and obligations to past cultural traditions.

A study of the German presence in Africa in the modern period that exposes forms of cultural domination that derive from a philosophy of progress and 'good intentions'. Highlighting patterns of domination that did not disappear with decolonization, it disputes assumptions about why global inequality has not only persisted but increased.

Features interviews that takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. This title offers accounts of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the divided Germany of the Cold War era. It includes vivid descriptions of the new united Germany, with its alarming resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism.

Offers a contribution to the reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. This title examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a range of French poststructuralist works. It concludes that French thought "encrypts but does not fully confront the trauma of the Holocaust."

Examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. This title is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.

This collection is the first to address both historical and contemporary works that employ the ritual of the cadavre exquis. It offers a unique overview of the efforts of scholars and artists to articulate new notions of crossing temporal and spatial boundaries and to experience in a new way the body's mutability through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic frames.

Rahel Levin Varnhagen occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. This work provides a comprehensive portrait of this remarkable woman. It gives an account of Varnhagen's intellectual community, and discusses Varnhagen's writings on women, philosophy, literature, Jews, and a host of other topics.

Stavans interweaves his own experience with that of other Jewish writers and thinkers to explore modern Jewish culture across the boundaries of language and nation

In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of ashes.

A revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, it investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First World War through the rise of National Socialism.

Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural controversies, a global circulation. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.

Is there such a thing as a modern Jewish literary tradition, one navigating across linguistic and national lines? If so, how should one define it? This volume explores the problems and prospects of representing Jewish experiences through such media as Holocaust memoirs and Jewish museums.

Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor.

Introduces key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous identities and politics and globalization. This book also contains a chapter on afterlives and adaptations that explores a range of wider cultural texts including film, non-fiction and art.

Examines the image of ""the Jew"" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French identity is defined through the abstraction and allegorization of ""the Jew"" and examines the role anti-antisemitic intellectuals play in this process.

Offers a series of meditations on the author's family and the places where they have lived. This book recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor movement, and her mother, a white woman whose boundless generosity was always in conflict with the racial divisions of the world around her.

Illuminates rise of paradigm of nonartistic Jew, and ways in which theorists, critics, and artists have sought to subvert, overcome, or work within it. This book examines cases that include Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity.

Offers a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. This title provides essays that focus on Germany's formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, and present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands.

Provides a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and career.

A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries

Presents an English translation that includes essays which chart an orientation for German life, culture, and politics beyond the Cold War and at the dawn of an unprecedented era.

Presents an introduction to the key texts and historical, cultural and critical contexts of medieval romance. This book introduces key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and 'Englishness' as well as key literary issues such as medieval manuscript production.