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ISBN:
9781571138743
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz 〈I〉Heimat〈/I〉 for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based entirely on her postwar poems. Such an isolated approach to her complex body of work is increasingly historically problematic; it is also at odds with Sachs's generally cyclical poetic process.〈BR〉In 'The Space of Words', Jennifer Hoyer offers the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed prewar poetry and prose, as well as the first analysis that examines structural and thematic ties between the prewar works and the Nobel-Prize-winning postwar poetry. Through close readings of both Sachs's prewar and postwar works, Hoyer reveals a diasporic rather than exilic conception of the landscape of language, a position of constant wandering rather than static longing for return. This diasporic poetics promotes the intellectual and linguistic power of the wanderer and opens new insights into Sachs's essential significance as a Holocaust poet and a twentieth-century German-Jewish writer wary of the link of literary language to geopolitics and the narrative of nations. Jennifer Hoyer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Arkansas
Content:
"An Stelle von Heimat": an introduction -- Biography of the poet: "a frail woman must do it" -- Wandering and words, wandering in words -- Sach's Merlin the Sorcerer: reconfiguring the myth as plural -- Poetic space after the abyss -- Israel is not only land: diasporic poetry -- Relearning to listen: Sachs's poem cycle "Dein Leib im rauch durch die Luft
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ISBN 9781571135513
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Print version ISBN 9781571135513
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English
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