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Kafka's Blues
Mark Christian Thompson
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Description for Kafka's Blues
Paperback. Kafka's Bluesproves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English)." Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the “Negro” (a term he used in English). Indeed, this bookdemonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka’s work are impossible without passage through a state of being “Negro.” Kafka represents this passage in various ways—from reflections on New World slavery and black music toevolutionary theory, biblical allusion, and aesthetic primitivism—each grounded in a concept of writing that is linked to the perceived congenital musicality of the “Negro,” and ... Read more
Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the “Negro” (a term he used in English). Indeed, this bookdemonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka’s work are impossible without passage through a state of being “Negro.” Kafka represents this passage in various ways—from reflections on New World slavery and black music toevolutionary theory, biblical allusion, and aesthetic primitivism—each grounded in a concept of writing that is linked to the perceived congenital musicality of the “Negro,” and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810132856
SKU
V9780810132856
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About Mark Christian Thompson
Mark Christian Thompson is an associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
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