Joela Jacobs

Animal, Vegetal, Marginal

The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka

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Produktbeschreibung

Animal, Vegetal, Marginal explores the oft-forgotten yet provocative German genre of die Groteske, or the literary grotesque. This short prose form challenges the norms of being human and being accepted as such by society in exaggerated and satirical ways. Between the Kaiser's and Hitler's Reichs, the genre's irreverent comedy and criticism sold out cabarets, drew droves of radio listeners, and created bestsellers. Yet, because its authors were ruthlessly censored and persecuted, die Groteske is virtually unknown today and neglected by scholarship. Joela Jacobs examines the development and influence of the genre on some of its leading exponents, including Oskar Panizza, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Salomo Friedlaender, and Franz Kafka. Animal, Vegetal, Marginal is the first full-length study of the genre and shows how its portrayals of marginalized and nonhuman perspectives mounted resistance against the rise of the biopolitical structures underpinning nationalism, racism, and antisemitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253071972
• ISBN-10: 0253071976
• Artikelnr.: 70180288

Autorenporträt

Joela Jacobs

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: The Grotesque: A Censored Literary Genre and Its Authors
1. Characteristics of die Groteske
2. Grotesken in a Nexus of Censorship
3. A Literary Network of the Marginalized
Section II: The Vegetal: Panizza, Ewers, and Turn-of-the Century Censorship
4. The Crime in Tavistock-Square
5. The Petition
6. Why Plants?
Section III: The Animal: Panizza, Kafka, and the Modernist Crisis of the
Self
7. From the Diary of a Dog
8. Investigations/Researches of a Dog
9. Why Dogs?
Section IV: The Human: Panizza, Friedlaender, and the Rise of Fascism
10. The Operated Jew
11. The Operated Goy
12. Why Humans?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography