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Kafka

By Elizabeth Boa

Kafka

By Elizabeth Boa

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Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka centres on gender. Her strikingly original insights show how, in an age of reactionary hysteria, Kafka rejected patriarchy yet exploited women as literary raw material. Drawing on Kafka's letters to his fiancée and to the Czech journalist, Milena Jesenska, Boa illuminates the transformation of details of everyday life into the strange yet uncannily familiar signs which are Kafka's stylistic hallmark.

Kafka: Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions argues that gender cannot be isolated from other dimensions of identity. The study relates Kafka's alienating images of the male body and fascinated disgust of female sexuality to the body-culture of the early twentieth century and to interfusing militaristic, racist, gender, and class ideologies. This is the context too for the stereotypes of the New Woman, the massive Matriarch, the lower-class seductress, and the assimilating Jew. The book explores Kafka's exploitation yet subversion of such stereotypes through the brilliant literary devices which assure his place in the modernist canon.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
1996-06-27
Publication Date:
1996-06-06
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019815819X
ISBN13:
9780198158196
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
579 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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